One Hundred Hungry Ants by elinor j. pinczes

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April 17,2025

Such a fun book of rhyming and simple multiplication! The ants were on their way to a picnic but the littlest ant kept stopping them to change their pattern, first one row of 100, then two rows of 50, etc. This caused them to take longer getting to the picnic and in the end, the food was gone. The other 99 ants were upset with the littlest ant, who said "It's not all my fault!"

A fun book to teach rhyming, repetition, and simple math. The pictures were very simple, but did a good job of portraying the lines of ants.

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AgentCarazon

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April 17,2025

The book, One Hundred Hungry Ants tells the story of ants trying to find ways to group themselves in order to get food to eat faster. This book could be used in a math lesson on grouping and dividing the "ants" or other manipulatives into groups. This lesson would be used for students in second to third grade. This book also has great forms of rhyming and this could also be used in a lesson teaching students how to rhyme.

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PROUD_MONKEY

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April 17,2025

One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes was a cute book full of great picture and text. The story was about one hundred marching ants on their way to a picnic, marching in one row of a hundred. That's when the tiniest ants stops them all and says there is a faster way to get there before the food is all gone. He has them separate their line and form two lines of fifty. They continue to walk and once again he stops that and tells them four lines of twenty five would be much faster. The ants scramble as they watch others critters carry away food from the picnic. They begin marching again when the little ant stops and says five lines of twenty would be much faster, once again the ants scramble. They are almost there when the littlest ant stops them one more time and insists they are moving too slowly and need to form ten lines of ten. Once the ants finally make it to the picnic all the food is gone, and all the ants chase after the littlest ant. I really enjoyed the pictures and the repetition in the text. This book is a great learning tool for math and is a great way to introduce division!

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Binsk

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April 17,2025

This book has a rhythm and rhyme pattern that is predictable and easy to follow. It also contains strong ideas of counting and multiplying as the ants arrange themselves into equal rows always adding up to 100.

Organization
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LEXILE: AD520L
ATOS: 2.6

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softoroki

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April 17,2025

Eh.

One hundred ants are heading to a picnic. They keep changing (dividing) how they are assembled. It takes so long to keep dividing themselves, they missed the picnic.
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We are reading a story about ants this week. This past summer while looking for a book in Gert's library, I saw a couple books about ants that I placed to the side to bring in this week. I picked up the other one to read today when one of my students stated we should read this one given its the 100th day of school. Can't argue with that.

Cute pictures. Book is still blah.

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ImmortalDao

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April 17,2025

Hungry and ready to go to a picnic, these hundred hungry ants are ready for a long adventure. One hundred hungry ants set off to a picnic but on the way the line of 100 ants take a while to travel. As one tiny ant starts to realize they are going too slow, he starts to form 2 rows of 50, then 4 rows of 25, then 5 rows of 20, and finally 10 rows of 10. As these hungry ants finally reach the picnic they realize the food is all gone. When all the hungry ants realize that this one little tiny ant prolonged their adventure by dividing into rows, they become furious and start to go after the tiny little ant. This book is a great way to introduce multiplication and division within the math content. It uses friendly number as well as visuals. It also demonstrates repeated addition as well as repeated subtraction. I like this book because it helps students get an idea of multiplication and addition and has a repeated lines on every page which students can articulate so they can get involved as well. This book is great when it comes to repetition because the students can get involved. It also includes rhyming.

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spookybee

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April 17,2025

Understanding grouping and regrouping is a key point of many basal math programs like Eureka. this book is a nice complement to that subject which students in first-fourth grade spend hours developing. This is up to a hundred, so it's mostly aspirational for first and second grade.
The ants are going to a picnic but they want to get there as quickly as possible. They move from one line of a hundred to two lines of fifty to four lines of twenty five to five lines of twenty. By the time they finally march up to that picnic, after a whole book's worth of rearranging, the picnic is done. The important thing is all the factors.
You can model this with your class when it's time to line up to go to lunch.
The art style is very simple. There is a limited color palette with a strong black outline. There were lots of black lines to denote shading and movement. There was no realism. The ants all have little faces and they are running around a vaguely khaki background.

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whitehydrangea

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April 17,2025

One Hundred Hungry Ants is a great way to incorporate math while reading a book. The story starts off when a hill of hungry ants is able to smell whiffs of yummies carried by the wind. Immediately, the ants begin to march off in a single file line to the picnic. But when the going gets too slow, they divide into two rows of fifty, then four rows of twenty. By the time they got there, everything at the picnic is long gone since they took too long!

For most of the book, the illustrations are presented on double-spread pages. The overall color platelet is kinda muted. Ants are colored blue, instead of red like we typically see in other pieces. To empathize with their movements and frenzy changing, lines are drawn behind the multiple of the arts, each going in a different direction from the other. This includes spiral and curvy lines to show the flow. There is rhyme in the text, which makes it engaging and easy to follow along. I like that while the ants are marching to the picnic, they would stop and reevaluate their formation in order to get to the target faster. While heading there and making these stops, other wild forest animals would be walking in the opposite direction, coming back with food from the picnic. Seeing each of the lines that the ants are in while forming into groups, makes it easier for kids to see how a large group can be broken up into smaller ones. It also encourages them to perform trial and error as the ants continue to improve their methods of getting to the picnic in faster ways.

After reading this book, I think a good way to extend the lesson is by doing factoring activities. Doing Factor Rainbows will allow students to see all of the motivation pairs that can result in the same number. Money could also be a fun way to connect the story by having manipulative tools to help aid their thinking when finding equal groups. These activities would be beneficial to students since it allows them to be creative and work with various amounts of numbers.

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