Will Mcgrath

This was a simple counting book that would be a fun for K-2nd. I liked the simple rhymes for the counting. It was also nice how they introduced base ten and counted by tens for children. This can sometimes be a hard concept to initially grasp for some young kids. This could be used by teachers as a lead for using manipulative like Cheerios to help counting by any sort of combinations and then as a treat getting to eat their math project.

The book starts off counting by 1s. Then at 10 starts to count by 10s all the way to 100. There are Cheerios grouped in tens along with a fruit with the same count.

The book counts from one to ten, with one number per page. Each page has the number, a picture of that number of Cheerios, a rhyming verse containing the number, and a picture of a different kind of fruit, also demonstrating the number. The rhymes are OK, but not quite natural. As we read each page, I like to count the number of Cheerios. In doing so it's hard to keep the rhyme going. Also, if we stop to notice (or count) the fruit, the rhyme tends to get lost.

This book is simply a counting book that uses cheerios to go through all of the numbers. It counts one through twenty and then counts by tens to one hundred. This book is great for Kindergarteners learning to count.