Tana Hoban was a celebrated children's book author and photographer. Her picture books are known and loved throughout the world, often well-regarded for their wordless depiction of the world in photographs.
August 11, 2020
As children start using number words, they don’t always have a sense of what those words really mean. Early on, we guide children to develop a meaningful number sense by focusing on small numbers.
Activities related to counting books can spark a lot of conversation and creativity. These English and Spanish-language activity cards are great for printing and using at home and school.
Books can illustrate kindergarten and preschool shape concepts while introducing foundational Big Ideas of math. These activity cards can help take the learning to the home environment where parents and caregivers can spark such discussion.
These printable activity cards in both English and Spanish invite home explorations with sets and sorting using the books and activities related to them. The books can encourage conversations about attributes while also inspiring questions…
To encourage and develop children’s counting knowledge, here are eight books (with an accompanying download) that are common to preschool classrooms.
Children look for ways to organize and make sense of their world through play at school and home, as well as at clean-up time. Sorting items into groups by specific attributes gives children the opportunity…
It’s up to us to find, share, and talk about a variety of shapes with children in ways that expand their understanding and build connections between the shapes drawn on paper and the concrete objects…
The holiday season usually brings with it any number of family dinners and communal feasts. For young children, this is a great time to engage in math.
One of the best ways to delve into the rules and patterns that govern algebra is through the books that are read to children each and every day.
A great way for kids to explore spatial relationships is to read books that call for them to think about where objects are in relation to something else.