Ten Pigs: An Epic Bath Adventure by Derek Anderson
READ!
One very happy pig — one bubbly bathtub. Everything is perfect until nine more join in. When Pig Number 10 jumps into the crowded tub, the first pig comes up with a plan to enjoy his bath.
What’s his plan? Let’s read to find out!
EXPLORE!
Let’s Make a Pig Spinner!
This Pig Spinner helps your child think about the sequence of action in a story and the words we use to signal steps in a series (such as first, then, next, finally). Learning these sequence words helps build comprehension skills and how stories work.
This story sequence spinner is also a retelling tool, giving your child a way to enjoy the story again in a new way! Retelling tools help children recall details and deepen comprehension. After making your spinner together, encourage your child to tell you about the story as they spin their pig, using the words first, then, next, finally.
Check out this sequence of steps to make your spinner!
The Big Five ideas for this book:
Talk: Talk to your child about the story, encourage your child to use their imagination by asking questions like. “Look how scared the pigs look! What do you think scared them and made them run away?”
Play: Bath time perfect chance for your child to play with math concepts and ideas. It also shows them what math can look like in the real world and how they might use it!
Try counting as you wash each part of your child’s body. “One arm, two arms!” Give your child a washcloth and ask them to wash and count their fingers and toes.
Explore with bath toys by seeing how many rubber ducks it would take to go across the bathtub.
Try pouring and measuring water between containers of different sizes. Count how many scoops of the small cup it takes to fill the large bowl.
Sing: Check out this sweet, simple song about washing the parts of your body!
Write: The numbers of your home address are great numbers to practice writing since they have personal meaning for your child. Look for the numbers of your address together outside your home, apartment, or on your mail box. Invite your child to write these numbers on a piece of paper and practice reciting your address.
real world connection
Number Scavenger Hunt: Numbers are all around us, and help us live our lives! Go on a number scavenger hunt with your child around your home. What numbers can you find? Take pictures with your cell phone or invite your child to write these numbers down. Give your child simple explanations for what we use these numbers for - for example, “these numbers on the microwave help me know how long to cook the food!” What’s the biggest number that you can find?
LEARN MORE!
Ten Pigs is a counting book.
Counting books introduce the language used with numbers and help children understand that numbers and letters serve a different purpose. Numbers are symbols for counting while letters are symbols for sounds and words.
Understanding this difference is an important step in building numeracy, or the ability to work with numbers. This is a kind of literacy!