Mooove over! by Karen Magnuson Beil

Title: Mooove Over!:  ( A book about Counting by Twos)

Author:  Karen Magnuson Beil

Illustrator: Paul Meisel

Read-alike:  Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos (Know Your Numbers) by Michael Dahl

Lexile Level:  510 L

ISBN: 9780823417360

Genres: Easy Fiction, Science and Math

Age: 4-7 yrs.

Big Idea:  This book is about one incident that happens to the animals on the bus. One day, the bus animals were pushed out of the bus by the cow who just couldn’t find a comfortable spot. The driver got out and saw all the animals on the roof and was like: what?? You got to find out by yourself what happened after but you’re not going to be disappointed. Children love this story, when I act it out and chase them out of the “bus”, (a few chairs.) You and students will definitely laugh through the story and have a great time acting it out after. Plus, they will practice skipping by twos.

Activity:

After reading the book, students will sit in chairs and make it look like they are on the bus. I will “come in” and pretend to be a cow, finding too little room everywhere I sit ant telling the students to move over, using some dialogues from the book. Correct the students along the way if they got up by one or threes. Make sure they know the names of the animals they are representing. At the end, everyone will chant 2, 4,6,8,10,12, 14, 16, 18, and 20. This is a great story also because there are 20 animals that are allowed on the bus (cow is 21) which goes perfectly with kindergarten math standard of counting to 20. 

Standards:  CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.A.2

Count forward beginning from a given number within the known sequence (instead of having to begin at 1).

Goal: Students will learn how to count by twos.

Objective: After reading the book, the teacher will act out a story with the students moving out of the chairs by twos. (S)

Outcome: Students will have a visual example to help their understanding skip counting to 20.

Selling Tool: Book mark 

Mooove over! by K. Magnuson Beil Do you know how to count? I bet. Do you know how to count by twos? I bet not… Lets do it! 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18    20… Hey, what is that cow doing here? There is only room for 20!

Works Cited:

Magnuson Beil, Karen. Mooove Over. New York: Holiday House (2004). Print