One Happy Classroom by: Charnan Simon

One Happy Classroom

Reviewed By: Lakia Ingram

Author: Charnan Simon & Illustrated by: Rebecca McKillip Thornburgh







Recommended Grade Level: Kindergarden-1st grade

Common Core Content Standards Addressed:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.A.1
Use addition and subtraction within 20 to solve word problems involving situations of adding to, taking from, putting together, taking apart, and comparing, with unknowns in all positions, e.g., by using objects, drawings, and equations with a symbol for the unknown number to represent the problem.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.1.OA.D.8
Determine the unknown whole number in an addition or subtraction equation relating three whole numbers. For example, determine the unknown number that makes the equation true in each of the equations 8 + ? = 11, 5 = _ - 3, 
6 + 6 = _.

 Common Core Standards for Mathematical Practice:

CCSS.Math.Practice.MP1
Make sense of problems and persevere in solving them.

CCSS.Math.Practice.MP4
Model with mathematics.

Summary:
Charnan Simon’s One Happy Classroom takes the reader through a school day of a Kindergarten classroom. This classroom is described as one happy classroom as students participate and learn during the day. The students go to lunch, play outside, take a nap and return to their final assignments of the day. Interestingly, each page gives a description of the student’s activities, while teaching students to add from the number one to ten: “


Rating: 


I would give Simon’s One Happy Classroom a five star rating. This book teaches young readers to not only read and make connections about their school day but to count from one to ten and then counting down from ten to one. Students can also add the amount of people and objects in the picture which can be turned into a full class lesson.  

Classroom Ideas:
 1.  Students can use this book when learning how to count from one to ten. Most first graders already know how to count but the teacher can use this as a counting review lesson up to ten.
    2 As a way to help students understand addition, the teacher can use the pictures to create an addition number sentence as well as a subtraction number sentence. As an example there are 6 students who have to use the bathroom. Two students get off the line and go to the bathroom. How many students are left on line?
    3.Teachers can create addition and subtraction word problems using the pictures. For an example there are 5 students who participate in show and tell. There are 11 students who sit down and watch. How many students are in the class all together?
    4.The class can participate in a fun game where they complete the addition or subtraction number sentence by filling in the missing number such as
4 +   =6 or     -7=2
                                                              



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