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Read and Make a Number Book

January 22, 2015 • 5 Comments

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Big numbers can be hard to visualize for young children.  Today, we have a book to read and a book to make to help make counting and the concept of numbers into a concrete experience.

A number book to read and a number book to make with a cool making tape book binding idea from growingbookbybook.com

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Read

How Big is a Million? number book

How Big is a Million? by Anna Milbourne is the story of Pipkin the Penguin who sets out on a journey to discover the size of one million.  There is a huge pull out poster that will help to illustrate the large number.

It is a fun book to read over and over again.

Make

After we read the story, we decided to create our own counting book and stuck to smaller numbers.

We made an easy reader snowball book.

Materials Needed:  7 pieces of  blue 9×12 construction paper, a bag of cotton rounds, glue sticks, markers, masking tape and scissors

1. Write “one snowball”, “two snowballs”, “three snowballs”, etc. on each page.  You will use the front and back of each sheet.  Two blank sheets will be used for your front and back covers.

gluing snowballs into number book

2.  Your kids are now ready to glue their snowballs (cotton rounds) onto each page.

binding your number book

3.  Now it is time to assemble your book.  We love to use the masking tape binding to create a lay flat book.  Here is a short video to show you how to assemble the book.

4.  Time to read your new homemade book.

Enjoy reading and writing about numbers!

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About Jodie Rodriguez

Jodie Rodriguez is a mom of two young boys and an early childhood/elementary educator with over 20 years of experience. Jodie's passion is helping parents, teachers, librarians and anyone else interested in nurturing and reaching ALL of our youngest growing readers.

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  1. Evelyne says

    January 29, 2015 at 9:29 am

    What a great idea! Love this post! Thanks for sharing with us at the Frugal Family Linky! Evelyne

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  2. Jill says

    January 24, 2015 at 2:00 pm

    What a fantastic activity and way to make learning math fun!

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  3. Natasha says

    January 23, 2015 at 10:10 am

    My girls absolutely love this book. I will be trying this activity with my girls.

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