Book #5 The Napping House

Book #5
The Napping House by Audrey Wood
Wood, A. (1984). The napping house. New York, NY: Scholastic.

Summary:
This book is about some napping inhabitants in a house on a dark, rainy day. First a granny that is snoring away is napping in the bed and is joined, one by one, by a dreaming child, then a dozing dog, a snoozing cat, a slumbering mouse, and finally a wide-awake flea. Then there is a chain reaction when the flea bites the mouse and everyone is woken up one by one. It ends up being okay because when everyone is awoken it is a bright sunny day.

Standards:
SC.2-2 Numbers and Operations: The student will demonstrate through the mathematical processes an understanding of the base-ten numeration system; place values; and accurate, efficient, and generalizable methods of adding and subtracting whole numbers.

Objectives:
The student will be able to add numbers up creating a total number.

Materials:
Wood, A. (1984). The napping house. New York, NY: Scholastic.

Procedures:
Read the book aloud. Then turn to the page with all of the characters on it and have the students identify how many legs each character has. List this information on the board, then ask, “How many legs are there in the bed all together?” Have students solve the problem and then share their methods. If a student is struggling use the making 10s model to show them how to add the numbers. If there is time, have them draw a picture of the people and pets in their house, record the number of legs of each, and figure the total. Finally have them write an addition number sentence that represents how they figured out the number of legs in their house.