Henry Keeps Score (Jasmin Bourdon)

Title: Henry Keeps Score

Author: Daphne Skinner

Illustrator: Page Eastburn O’Rourke

Grade level recommended: K-2

 

Common Core Mathematics Standards Addressed:

Understand the relationship between numbers and quantities; connect counting to cardinality.  K.CC. 4abc

a.     When counting objects, say the number names in standard order, pairing each object with one and only one number name and each number name with on and only one objects.

b.    Understand the last number name said tells the number of objects counted. The number of objects is the same regardless of their arrangements or the order in which they were counted.

c.     Understand that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.

 

Add and Subtract within 20.

Relate counting to addition and subtraction. 1.OA.5

 

Summary: This book is about a young boy who is always at competition with his older sister. He feels whatever she does he also has to do. Every activity that is done by the children Henry the younger brother keeps score, so that he can make sure he is doing the same amount of things as his older sister. Harriet gets 4 pancakes for breakfast and Henry got 3. He then points out if Harriet gets 4 pancakes he too has to get 4. At the end the children are taken to the dentist and Harriet had one cavity, at this point Henry does not want to keep score, he does not want to have a cavity as Harriet did. Henry did not and for the first time he was happy that Harriet had 1 and he had 0.

Rating: ***** I give it a great rating. It is a book that contains factual events which allows a child to have a connection with the book. It brings the children to want to learn what is going to happen because they are able to draw a connection. Through this book one may be able to create many activities within a classroom.

 Classroom activities: With the use of this book an educator can incorporate many different mathematical ideas such as subtraction, addition, as well as using the technique of tally. An educator can build a tally chart for the upper grade children and then create a bar graph. One can tally how much Harriet and Henry have at different points or one can create a more personal one by having the children involved in the work. One can ask the class how many children eat 3, 4, or 5 pancakes and tally and so forth. This gets the students engaged and eager to complete the task. With the younger children an educator can use addition in multiple ways. From adding how much each child had throughout the book to adding how many items in all. Such as, how many pancakes did Harriet and Henry have all together? Or how many chores and cookies did Henry have all together? This has the children at attention as well as having them explore mathematics through the book.