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Earth Day--Hooray! (MathStart: Level 3)
by
Stuart J. Murphy (Goodreads Author),
Renee Andriani
Earth Day is on the way, and Ryan, Luke, and Carly have a plan. If they manage to collect and recycle 5,000 aluminum cans, they can make enough money to buy some beautiful flowers for nearby Gilroy Park.
CAN they do it?
Counting the cans gives Ryan, Luke, and Carly -- along with readers -- a lesson in place value. And facts about recycling throughout the story will help read...more
CAN they do it?
Counting the cans gives Ryan, Luke, and Carly -- along with readers -- a lesson in place value. And facts about recycling throughout the story will help read...more
Paperback, 40 pages
Published
January 20th 2004
by HarperCollins
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For some reason when I picked up this book I didn't expect myself to enjoy it, but surprisingly I did! Something I didn't expect myself to find was all of the math in this book! There were so many chances for the reader to improve their counting skills and even take a look at place value. Not only do students benefit from the math practice, there is also a chance for them to learn more about keeping the earth clean. Just from these two lessons I would already give this book a great rating but th...more
Ryan, Carly, and Luke had to gather 5,000 cans to be able to collect enough money to buy flowers to plant at the front of Gilroy Park where Earth Day celebration would be taking place. This book is a great way to show how math is used in real world experiences. It teaches about place value, as well as ties in an economic lesson about recycling. The cans were bundled together in groups of 10s, 100s, and 1,000s. Each time the kids gathered more can they would show a diagram of how they needed to g...more
This book serves as both an Earth Day celebration and a math lesson in place value for large numbers. The main story follows three students and their involved teacher who form the Save-the-Planet Club and want to collect 5,000 cans to recycle so that they can buy flowers to decorate the local park. As they collect cans there are plenty of opportunities for readers to practice counting by 10s, 100s, and 1000s. There are also random facts about the history of Earth Day and recycling throughout the...more
This story showed a great lesson about working hard and how cleaning our environment is so important. There were very informative facts mentioned in the book for the reader. The story was well written and can be inspiring to may other students at different school who might want to do the same tasks as these children did. This is also a great book for adults,as well as kids, with the facts that are mentioned in the back of the book.
This book talks about recycling and keeping Earth a clean place. You can have students talk about ways they keep the Earth a clean place.At the same time, it includes a lesson on counting and sorting cans for recycling by 1's, 10's, and 100's. You can have the students count the cans with you as you read the book. Excellent science and math integrated lesson.
I like that this book combines looking at our base ten counting system with recycling. I understand it is the function of the book, but it is a little impractical and wasteful for the kids to put only ten cans into a bag and then bag them up again in groups of ten. But if they didn't, I guess we'd miss half the point of the book.
I really enjoyed reading this book. Earth Day is a story about three friends, Carly, Ryan, and Luke, who want to gather cans in order to make enough money to help clean up their local park and make it pretty again. They set out with a goal of gathering 5,00 cans. In order to make the counting process easier, they grouped the cans in bags of 10's, 100's, and 1,000's. As they collect their cans, the friends keep track of how many they gathered so far. Each time they gathered additional cans, the f...more
This book is a wonderful tool to help students see the importance of grouping. The visuals are great and easy to understand. I also like the earth day storyline because you can also use this book to teach the importance of taking care of our environment.
This book can be used to teach the students about place value. As you read the story, the students can follow along and count the 10s, 100s, 1000s, and ones. This book can teach students the importance of Earth Day and recycling.
Mar 21, 2013
Katie Plumley
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4 of 5 stars
Shelves:
math,
read-aloud,
ece-3601,
science,
spring,
social-activism,
building-community,
problem-solving
~Great intro into recycling unit.
~Community building: the kids institute a recycling program at their school in order to clean up the park.
~Healthy living: Get plenty of time out doors playing!
~Can be used as a springboard to beginning a recycling program at the school.
~Community building: the kids institute a recycling program at their school in order to clean up the park.
~Healthy living: Get plenty of time out doors playing!
~Can be used as a springboard to beginning a recycling program at the school.
This is great book to read to your students on Earth Day. It is also a great book to use for math. It helps teach students place value.
Great message of how kids can make a difference and clean up their neighborhood, with an exercise in place value as well.
Really more about math than Earth Day, which made the book not fit what I needed for the day.
Earth Day-- Hooray! is another one of Stuart J. Murphy's excellent books from his math series. In this book, students collect cans and are trying to get 3,000 cans so they can make a park pretty. This book would be great to use for both math and science because they are discussing recycling and the environment as well as counting by tens, ones, hundreds, and even thousands. Students can use this book for Georgia GPS S3L2 possibly and discuss recycling of materials and conservation of resources....more
it's all about collecting cans
Great book to teach an integrated lesson plan with reading, math and science to 2nd-5th. This is a great book that teaches about recycling and uses math to count up the materials needed.
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