BOOK EXTENSION ACTIVITY - LESSON PLAN

Your Name: Wendy Cooper Genre of the Book: Fiction

Book Title: Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons Author: Eric Litwin

Publisher: Harper Date: 2012

1. Pre-K/ CCSD K-2nd Grade/Nevada Core Standards:

Math
1.PK.3a Recognize and read numerals 0-5.

1.PK.3c Match the number of objects in a set to the correct numeral 0 to 5.

1.PK.5 Use concrete objects to combine and separate groups up to 5.

2.PK.1 Sort objects by similar attributes (e.g., size, shape, and color).

3.PK.1 Compare objects by size to determine smaller and larger.

Reading Strategies
2.PK.2 Ask questions or make comments pertinent to the story being read.

2.PK.3 Identify pictures to aid in comprehension.

Literary Tex

3.PK.8 Predict what will happen next in a story.

Expository Text
4.K.1 With assistance, listen to and identify the purpose of and gain information from
illustrations, graphs, charts and titles.

Listening

7.PK.2 Listen and respond appropriately to stories and group discussions.

7.PK.3 Listen with increasing attention span to gain new vocabulary.

 2. Objectives:

Understand that objects correspond to numbers.

Understand simple subtraction.

3. Materials/Equipment:

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Buttons of various sizes and colors
Number tiles

4. Teaching:
A. Begin by reading Pete the Cat
• Encourage the children to quote along with reader, “But did Pete cry? Goodness no!”
• Encourage the children to observe the buttons popping off of Pete’s shirt in the illustration.
• Encourage the children to observe the numbers illustrated.
• Encourage the children to count along
• Encourage the children to use their fingers to count and take away one.

B. Extension activity
• Dismiss to table
• By using buttons, have the children sort by color, shape, size.
• Count up to 5, using buttons to correspond.
• Use numbers tiles to help with number recognition.
• Begin to take away, or subtract, buttons one button at a time.

5. Closure: Check the children’s understanding of how Pete was relaxed and did not worry
about the little things. Then check their understanding about counting, one to one correspondence
as well as subtracting.

Next, work on subtracting more than one button at a time.