A House for Birdie (MathStart 1)
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| Rating | : | 4.66 (565 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060523514 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 40 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-15 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Great book for preschoolers about size This is a great story for introducing size concepts and vocabulary to preschoolers. Distinctions among dimension words (tall, wide, etc.) are illustrated well in a meaningful context that young children understand.. Birdie gets a sex change! A good book; my preschooler likes it a lot and understands the concept of different shaped birds fitting in different shaped houses. Nice idea about friendship at the end (Birdie's friends end up building him a house themselves). HOWEVER! I find it truly bizarre that nobody - not the author, the proofreader, the typesetter, the publisher, nobody - noticed that in the beginning of the book Birdie is referred to as "he" and by the end is referred to as "she"! Even my child noticed and asked "isn't Birdie a boy?" when I read the end to him! If not for this horrible typo, I would have given the book a higher rating. "Not even 1 star" according to M.A.K.. Birdie has four friends, 2 male, tall and skinny-short and skinny and only take the house when Birdie refuses. 2 female, tall and fat, short and fat, who push the other bird aside to claim the house they prefer, even though the quest was for finding a home for Birdie. Sexist, much? Won't be reading this to any other children and might just lose it instead of returning it to the classroom library and buying a different book to replace it.
Stuart J. In MathStart books, pictures do more than tell stories; they teach math. Murphy is a visual learning specialist. Murphy brings a unique perspective to the MathStart series. He lives in New York City.. He also has extensive experience in the world of educational publishing. Murphy and his wife, Nancy, live in Boston.Edward Miller has illustrated A Drop of Blood and What Happens to a Hambur
The bright colors are attractive, and the text is accessible to beginning readers, but the explanation of the math concept isn't entirely successful.–Erlene Bishop Killeen, Fox Prairie Elementary School, Stoughton, WICopyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. Additionally, "short and narrow" is reworded as "nice and thin," which jumps off the page as a value judgment after the narrative has used other descriptive terminology without any positive or negative interpretations. . All rights reserved. In the end, the other birds build him a home that is just right. Some of the terms used to describe each bird are redundant. A tiny blue bird searches for an appropriate house with the help of his feathered friends. The author's goal is to introduce students to length, width, and height, but not all three dimensions are clearly di
Poor tiny Birdie has no house. Will they find a house for Birdie before the rain falls and the wind blows? A sweet and simple story about helping out a friend explains the math concept of capacity -- what will fit in a container of a particular shape and size.. Spike, Queenie, Goldie, and Fidget want to help Birdie find a house of his own. Birdie needs a house that isn't too tall and isn't too thin, that isn't too short and isn't too fat, and that isn't too wide and isn't too narrow. But Birdie does have friends