The Doorbell Rang - Posted by Kimberly Johnson

THE DOORBELL RANG

POSTED BY KIMBERLY JOHNSON

Title: The Doorbell Rang

Author and Illustrator:  Pat Hutchins

Recommended Grade Level: Pre-K – 2

Common Core Standards Addressed:

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.4

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.B.5

Count to answer "how many?" questions about as many as 20 things arranged in a line, a rectangular array, or a circle, or as many as 10 things in a scattered configuration; given a number from 1-20, count out that many objects.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.OA.A.1

Represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds (e.g., claps), acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations.

CCSS.MATH.CONTENT.K.CC.C.6

Identify whether the number of objects in one group is greater than, less than, or equal to the number of objects in another group, e.g., by using matching and counting strategies.

Summary: 

In this story, Mom makes one dozen cookies for her children.  They notice that they each can eat 6 cookies.  As they are about to eat, the doorbell rings! In come two neighbors.  The children decide to split their cookies with their friends and realize that now that four people are eating cookies, each child can eat three cookies.  But once again, as they are about to eat the doorbell rings!  Read to find out how many cookies each child finally gets to eat!

Rating: *****

This is an excellent book!  Not only does it help children see the importance of sharing with friends and being kind, and have repetition to all children to read along, it also introduces them to many mathematical concepts such as fractions and division!

Classroom ideas:

This book can be used within the classroom in many ways. The children can practice one-to-one correspondence as they count the different amount of cookies each child gets throughout the story.  It can also be used to introduce the concept of division.  Using fake cookies or manipulatives, children can divide the cookies for each new character that arrives in the story, making sure to share the cookies evenly.  Depending on the amount of children in the class, two students can pretend to be Sam and Victoria having six cookies each in front of them.  As the story progresses, allow different students to pretend to be the neighbors ringing the doorbell and have the class figure out how to evenly share all twelve cookies.  Students can also be asked to figure out how many less cookies do the characters have after the doorbell rings.  As a culminating activity, bake a different amount of cookies and repeat the activity allowing the students to enjoy eating them at the end!