11/28
Fiction
Pre K-2nd
I loved this counting book! I used to read this growing up but actually understanding the numbers and groupings made more sense. Very cute and sad in the end!

This is a good book if you want to teach children 1) ways 100 can be broken into groups, 2) that it is dangerous to know math, 3) that you will be beaten up by the group if you act as a leader, and 4) that smart children suffer from ostracism by the dumber people in society. Maybe true, but I'm not going to read it to any kids!

Great way to learn ways to count to 100 (one's, twos, fours, fives). Poor little ant gets all the blame.

This book is a good beginning-of-year resource when reviewing place value concepts with students. It could be an integrated literacy center where students would read the books (as partners or alone, depending on level) and then practicing counting out 100. Students would be asked different ways to represent 100s (10 grids, cups, plastic bags). Further into the year, the book could also be used as a reference for creating arrays and different ways to divide 100.

One Hundred Hungry Ants by Elinor J. Pinczes follows a group of 100 ants trying to get to a picnic. One little ant keeps stopping the ants and organizing them into different rows that are ways to multiply to get 100. This book is a great way to include math in reading or reading in math. This book is a great way to assist in multiplication or division. This book also has a repetitive phrase that will encourage a student to pick up this book to read themselves. I will have a copy of this book to incorporate into my math and reading lessons. The illustrations do a great job in adding to the story and show the multiplication sets.

This book uses ants to teach children about grouping, counting, and building sets. The ants want to get to a picnic to get food, but they are moving way to slow. Each time they group themselves in a different way to see if they can get to the picnic faster. At first they were moving in a single file line, but then one ant realized that if they move in multiple rows they could get there faster. They eventually divided into ten rows and arrive to the picnic, but there was no food left. The other ants got so mad at the one ant that kept taking the time to put them in rows, that they all went after him. It was not technically his fault, because if he would have not put them in rows, they would have still not made it to the picnic in time. The illustrations are very cute and would be appealing to young readers. You can tell that the illustrator put a lot of time into the illustrations making sure all the ants were drawn out to see the different groupings that were described in the text. Children need fun ways to learn sometimes. These days everything is about work, work, work, instead of having some type of fun.

A hey and a hi dee ho! "One Hundred Hungry Ants" tells the story of 100 ants on their way to a picnic but get rearranged multiple times to hurry the process of getting there before the picnic runs out of food!
This book is great for teaching students about grouping and coming up with numbers in multiple ways. The students can use raisons or jelly beans to show the different ways you can get to 100 or any other number in general.

The main color of this book is definitely purple. You see that on the dust jacket as well as the hard cover, although on the cover there is no illustration or title just a gold emblem. The end pages are also a bright violet purple as well as the ants in the story. Throughout the book the illustrations are done in what looks like a cartoonish painting. The illustrations are bordered with a thick black line and the text is on the bottom of the pictures. Using the borders brings all the attention on the illustration therefore the pictures and text go hand in hand. Also to note in the beginning of the story there is a page that has a picture of a plate with a sandwich on it, reflecting the picnic the ants are about to go hunt for, then at the ending the sandwich is gone and there is nothing but an empty bowl which reflects that they were too late for the picnic. This book was a clever way to introduce the different ways to divide up ten but not only giving the story but illustrations to back it up.

Wow... Pinczes does a great job in this story creating an on going poem with rhyming words throughout the story depicting a group of very hungry ants that add up to a total of one hundred. Throughout the story, the ants divide themselves in groups, each time equaling one hundred ants. For example, the ants travel to find food in 2 groups of 50 and 4 groups of 25 (along with several other combinations.) This story is great when teaching young students about grouping and addition strategies... I recommend this book!

This book tells the story of 100 ant’s journey to a picnic to have a feast and their determination to get there before it is all gone. One ant keeps having the ants divide into different groupings saying they will get there faster that way. Since there are 100 of them, this includes 4 rows of 25, ten rows of 10, 5 rows of 20, etc. However, this doesn’t help the ants as when they arrive, they are too late, and the feast is gone. It also plays on rhyme and repetition as the lines repeat and flow with ease. A great opportunity to discuss division, and a connective way to discuss money as well since it is a total of 100 ants. Many math lessons could be done with this book, and I think it is a cute and creative way to integrate ELA and math. Great read for any classroom decision, or to have in a class library. Anyone can relate to the hunger and determination of these 100 hungry ants. Such a cute book that I personally enjoyed reading, which I do not often find with math concentrated books. So many activities can be created with this book, and it is sure to last the test of time.

This book is about 100 hungry ants that are marching in one single filed row to get to a picnic before all the food gets eaten by the other animals. Along the way, the smallest ant stopped the line and told them that they should make 2 lines of 50 to get there faster. Then they end up making 4 rows of 25 and 10 rows of 10. When they finally reached the picnic, all the food was gone! This book can be made into a song which may make it a little more fun and entertaining for the students. Also, a great way to introduce a math concept of counting by 10s and how to group to get the same number. The teacher could create many extension activitites from this book, such as getting the students up and moving by having them form their own even groups that would get them to the lunchroom quicker than walking in one straight line. The students could also use manipuatives or unifix cubes to re-enact the story making the different groups and becoming familiar with grouping and different ways to get 100.

Great for teaching numeracy: introduction to multiplication, division, and fractions.