How is it possible to have too many tamales? Well, Maria finds out in the book Too Many Tamales by Gary Soto. In this holiday storybook, what starts out as a fun experience helping mama make tamales becomes a frantic search for mama's wedding ring. But it's in the search that Maria and her cousins are faced…
A Triangle for Adaora by Ifeoma Onyefulu is a delightful book that emphasizes several Big Ideas in geometry, including that comparing attributes of shapes helps define and classify them and that two- and three-dimensional shapes can be used to represent and understand the world around us. Adaora doesn’t want to eat her paw-paw fruit because she…
Teachers who go home from our learning lab with Anno’s Counting Book immediately put it to use to get their students exploring “how many?” After reading Anno’s Counting Book, Nancy Beza at Waters Elementary encouraged her preschoolers to make a list of objects that could be found in a winter scene—snowflakes, trees, etc. Each student…