This book overall was great. I was able to find ways that this book could be used in various subjects. For instance, I could use this book in science to teach students about insects. I could use this book in literacy to teach students about repetition and rhyming. In math, I can teach students how to divide and multipy. Also in math this book demonstrats several ways to make the number 100. I could have student practice different ways in making 100 as well as other numbers.

A book about one hundred ants going on a picnic. Using grouping and division the story describes how the ants line up into two lines of fifty and other different groupings. This book is great to use when teaching multiplication, division and groupings. The students can get a better idea of how all these are linked together. Activity: teacher supplies students with different number of unifix cubes and the students can make and describe the different groupings that they create.

Nice story that sneaks in some math.

Personal reaction:I think this book is very valuable and I enjoyed reading it. There is great use of rhyming and pacing. The book moves at a very fast pace as the one hundred ants attempt to organize themselves into different equal groups to reach a picnic. One little ant keeps telling the rest of the group that they will reach the picnic faster if they rearrange themselves. They go from 2 groups of 50, 4 groups of 25, etc. I enjoyed the use of math in the book. Each rearrangement of groups is a different set of multiples.

Purpose/use in the classroom: I think the best use of this book would be for a read aloud to young kindergarden students. One great activity idea for a math class would be to pick a small number such as 20, and use crafts or items to practice grouping them in different ways. You could also do an activity where students would read to each other and group different items in pairs. This would provide you with a great opportunity to facilitate and monitor each child. Overall, I enjoyed this book and might use in my classroom in the future as a way to help young readers practice grouping and math skills.

Great book for beginning conceptualization of division, especially for the math averse. My son and I loved the woodcut style illustration and laughed at how the other animals were running off with all the food (the turtle and snail were our favorite). I really appreciated how the illustration supported the story making it a great combination of author-illustrator effort to tell a great story.

Cute book to talk about beginners division.

My Rating
3.5 stars
Summary
One hundred hungry ants set off on their way to an abandoned picnic to fill their tummies, but will they ever get there in time? The littlest ant has an idea! Maybe if the ants form rows instead of one big line, they will get there in time to stuff their bellies. Let's see how fast they can go!
Rationale:
This story was cute and humorous. It's fun to see the ants going all over the place trying to organize themselves into rows so that they can get to the picnic faster. But of course in the end, all of that stopping and starting and running around like ants, prevents them from achieving their goal of stuffing themselves to their little heart's desires. If you pay attention to the surroundings of the ants, you will see that the other animals are already taking what is up for grabs from the picnic as the ants hustle and bustle about. I almost missed this important detail the first time I read the story, and then realized how important this detail really is because it could help the reader predict what will happen at the end of the story.

Children will love this humorous little tale watching the ants run all over the place while also subtly learning multiplication and division.

This books is about 100 hungry ants who are headed to a picnic all in a line. The littlest ant stops and tells the rest of the ants that they're going too slow and would get there faster in two rows of 50. The ants continue to the picnic, but the littlest ant keeps stopping and making all of the other ants rearrange because he thinks they are moving too slow. Meanwhile, all of the other animals are going to and from the picnic and eating up all of the food. When the ants finally reach their destination, they are disappointed to find that they have missed out on the picnic because of all the time they spent rearranging their line.

This is a really short and fun book that incorporates a little bit of math. This book is written in a poetry format, which I feel students will really enjoy. The pictures are also very unique as they look blocky and are characterized by bold black lines. I feel the simple illustrations reflect the simplicity of the story line very well. One of the first things that came to my mind after reading this book was how fun it would be to turn it into a math lesson. In about a second grade classroom, the teacher could read the book to the class and then ask students which way they feel the ants would be able to get to the picnic fastest (100 by 1, 50 by 2, 25 by 4, etc.). Students could then draw a picture of their ants marching to the picnic in the formation they made. I feel this would be a fun way to teach a simple math lesson.

One hundred ants march off to find food at a picnic in a single file line. One little ant determines that they will get there "way too slow" so he divides them in 2 lines of 50. Naturally, that will get them there too slowly as well, so he continues reorganizing them until they are in 10 lines of 10 and there is no food left at the picnic! This would be a fun one to use for the 100th day of school, or to introduce division.

Great book to use when teaching multiplication & division facts to students.
The ants go in search of food then they split into groups of 2s, 4s, etc.
Math manipulatives really enhance the learning with this book.
Shows how one smart or not-so-smart ant takes the leadership role and devises a strategy for getting to the picnic faster by diving themselves into rows.
Science: great to use with a lesson on ants or insects.

One Hundred Hungry Ants not only works on multiplication but it really focuses on grouping. They give different examples of how the one hundred ants are lined up together (4 lines of 20, 2 lines of 50). The book also has a lot of rhyming words which is good integration for a math lesson. A fun activity for the class to do would be to create their own number of ants (or any animal of their choosing). They would have the total number of animals and come up with different ways that they could group them to equal that total, to work on grouping and multiplication.

Wonderful book for using student's "double" knowledge through division. Can be used for 2nd and possibly 3rd graders. Unifix cubes could be used for tactile manipulating and representation. Students can follow with manipulatives as the teacher reads the story. Then go backwards and double the cubes until they get to 100. Also, teeachers could have students do similar activities while using multiples of 3, 4, or 5.