10 Apples Up On Top Posted by Yulissa Liriano

Author Theo LiSieg

Illustrator Ray McKie

Recommended Grade Level K through 2nd grade

Common Core Standards Addressed:

K.CC.B.4: Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality. K.CC.B.5: Count to answer “how many?” questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1–20, count out that many objects.1.OA.A.1: Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.1 Standard for Mathematical Practice:  CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model with mathematics. Summary: The story is about a lion, a tiger, and dog competing to see who can put the most apples on top of their heads without dropping any of them.

Rating (1-5 Stars): I give this book 5 stars because its a fun book to read with with lots of rhymes and pictures. Although it may seem silly at first, I think it's a book that will keep children entertained and spark interests in numbers and counting.

Classroom Ideas/Lesson Ideas: My initial thought when choosing this book was that it would only be good to teach counting. My group mates opened my eyes to many other topics it can be used for. Some potential lesson plan ideas are using this book to help children learns how to count backwards, skip counting, graphing, problem solving and using math phrases. For example, students could graph how many apples are on each page. Another example could be giving student various words problems such as how many more apples one character has versus another. When talking about the book students should be encouraged to used phrases like all together, how many more, most and least, which are awesome math vocabulary words.