Five Little Monkeys

I read the book Five Little Monkeys as an E book on Speakaboo.  I choose to read this book because I have not read many books that integrate math or numbers nor have I read many books for the kindergarten or first grade readers,  The book tells the story where there are five monkeys and one jumps off the bed and bumps their head so on and so forth til there are no more monkeys on the bed.  The book repeats the sequence until there are no more monkeys and that makes the text familiar and teaches students about repetition.

I would use this book to teach students about subtraction.  When a monkey would fall off of the bed I would press pause and have students how many monkeys they think will be left on the bed then I will press play and let students see if they are correct.  This book will teach students that you can have numbers in books and encourage students to use them in their own writing.  I will use this activity in my classroom.