Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3

Author: Bill Martin Jr. and Michael Sampson

Title: Chicka Chicka 1, 2, 3

Illustrator: Lois Ehlert

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers

Year: 2004

Format: Audio

Genre: Counting

Reading Level: Emergent

Interest-Level: Pre-School, Elementary

Topics: Numbers, Counting, Sequence

Summary: “Will there be a place for me? 1 told 2 and 2 told 3, race me to the top of the apple tree!” begins Chicka, Chikca 1, 2, 3. This story is great for children learning numbers. The flow and repetition of numbers and words will have the children counting and singing along with the story by the end of the book.

Extension Activities:

-Give the children a bingo card shaped like a tree with circles on the leaves to represent apples. Read off numbers and they have to dot/color that many apples in on their bingo cards. When a students colors in all their apples they have “bingo!”

-On a giant poster write the numbers 1-20 and from there count by tens to 100. Cut out the corresponding numbers on construction paper. Hand out a couple numbers to each student and have them match them on the poster board to the numbers they have.

-Let them play around with magnet numbers on the chalkboard. Have them create double digits, like 10, 11, 12, 20, etc by using a one or a zero.

1, 2, 3, A Book To See

Author: - William Wondriska

Title: - 1, 2, 3, A Book To See
Illustrator: - William Wondriska
Publisher: - Random House
Year: - 1959

Format: - Hardcover
Genre: - Counting Book
Reading Level: - Assisted, Emergent, Independent
Interest Level: - Pre-K

Topics: - numbers, counting, simple pictures

Summary: - This book uses small, simply drawn pictures as counting tools. For each number, beginning with 1, a new picture is added to the collection until eventually there are 10 pictures on the last page to show the number 10. The pictures are shown in such a way as to make it appear like a child could have drawn them with a red crayon or marker. They include: a wagon, bird, baseball, pine tree, house, sun, horse, flower, bike, and stick person.

Extension Activity: - Students will draw a collection of pictures to represent their age. Then, all of the pictures will be put together in a collage. The class will then count (or add, depending on the age) all of the ages to see the number of years represented in the classroom.