Title: Caps for Sale
Author: Esphyr Slobodkina
Illustrator: Esphyr Slobodkina
Recommended Grade
Level: K-3
Common Core
Mathematics Standard:
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.5
Fluently add and subtract within 100 using strategies based on place
value, properties of operations, and/or the relationship between addition and
subtraction.
CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.2.NBT.B.6
Add up to four two-digit numbers using strategies based on place value
and properties of operations.
Common Core
Standards For Mathematical Practice:
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP1 Make
sense of problems and persevere in solving them.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP4 Model
with mathematics.
CCSS.MATH.PRACTICE.MP5
Use appropriate tools strategically.
Summary: A peddler walks from town to town, selling the caps he balances
in a stack on his head. One day, business was slow and the peddler, who was
tired of walking, takes a nap under a tree. When he wakes up, he realizes that
monkeys high up in the tree have stolen all the caps — except for his own.
Nothing will convince them to give them back. When the peddler points, the
monkeys just point back; when he shakes his fist, they merely shake theirs.
When he stamps his foot, the monkeys stamp theirs. Finally, the peddler throws
his cap on the ground in despair and frustration. And what do the monkeys do?
They throw their caps down, too!
Rating: I rate this book a 5. It is funny and when reading aloud, children
can engage in physical activity mocking monkeys and peddler as teacher reads. It
is appealing for students ages 4-8.
Classroom Ideas: Caps for Sale can be used from
K-3. For K, lessons can start from basic
counting and colors; introduction of single digit addition and subtraction of
caps in 1st grade; introduction of decimals in early 2nd
grade; and later in 2nd grade, introduction of addition and
subtraction of two to three digit place values of numbers/money value understanding
their relationship. Third grade can use
prior knowledge of skills to build on more difficult place value concepts.
One of my all time favorite books! One time a teacher did a read aloud and he bought several caps and recreated the story in the class. I am interested to see how you will be incorporating decimals in the story.
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