10 flashing fireflies book

This game helps children practice the concept of onetoone correspondence, counting, and simple addition. Ten flashing fireflies lexile find a book metametrics inc. Because all 10 fireflies appear on each page whether they have been caught and placed in the jar or not the illustrations support understanding different ways to make 10. Ten flashing fireflies philemon sturges, anna vojtech. This engaging activity for making ten is based on the book ten flashing fireflies. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. Click to read more about ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges. As you reread the story, the children will buzz around the room as they are caught and put in the jar.

Luminous pictures and a buoyant, chantaloud text, combine to make this twoway counting book as joyous and magical as catching fireflies on a summer night. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges librarything. The following slide continues to have interactive fireflies and a jar along with interactive numbers to allow students to build equations to match the fireflies inside or out of the jar. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges grade levels. In this story problems lesson, 1st graders sing a song about counting fireflies and then read a story about counting fireflies.

I only put 7 fireflies in this blue ball jar, but if you do this as a follow up to that story, have children do 10 fingerprint fireflies. Ten flashing fireflies interactive math smart board lesson by. I would like to know how you modified the book for more repetition. My goto mentor text for making 10 is ten flashing fireflies. Ten flashing fireflies lesson plan is suitable for kindergarten. Ten flashing fireflies book by philemon sturges, anna vojtech. Off comes the lid and the fireflies escape into the. Chicago turabian author date citation style guide sturges, philemon and anna. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges readaloud revival. Ten flashing fireflies leveled books paperback by philemon sturges, anna vojtech. Anna vojtech two children catch fireflies on a summer night, putting them one by one into a jar until all ten are caught, and then they let them out to watch all ten fly away. Begin the lesson by reading the childrens literature book ten flashing fireflies. As a group, have the students come together to write a class list of all the combinations for 10 that were made.

Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Jun 12, 2012 we can use our 10 flashing fireflies as puppets. Ten flashing fireflies paperback picture book, mar 1 1997 by philemon sturges author, anna vojtech author 4. It is also a simple book that the students can get creative with during read alouds. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges goodreads. After reading the book, call 10 children to each come and hold one of the flies. This counting book, with atmospheric, dusky chalk illustrations. Introduce the ten frame by displaying it to the class on your board or using a document camera. Ten flashing fireflies smart board lesson has been made to accompany the book ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges and anna vojtech. This story is about two children who see ten flashing fireflies at night and they catch one at a time and place them in a jar. The first grade teachers at school absolutely love introducing subtraction and addition number sentences to their kids using the book ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges.

This lesson plan engages learners in a variety of activities to build 1 to 1 correspondence, estimation, and problem solving skills. Philemon sturges first book, ten flashing fireflies, is a cute counting book about a boy and a girl catching fireflies. What you need to know cute firefly craft for a pbis themed family night. Now you can make this easy file folder game to go with it.

Once captured, the fireflies light flickers and fades, so in a generous goodnight gesture, the children release them. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges lesson plan for. There are 3 fireflies in my jar and 7 fireflies are in the sky. There is also a similar lesson i thinknot positive in another math. Download a free booklet students use to record their friends of ten. A brother and sister add nine more fireflies to their collection. A beautifully illustrated story in which there are 10 fireflies at night and two friends are collecting them. Two children catch fireflies on a summer night, putting them one by one into a jar until all ten are caught, and then they let. Ten flashing fireflies is a story about a boy and girl collecting fireflies in their backyard.

Ten flashing fireflies based on the book by philemon sturges ten flashing fireflies based on the book by philemon sturges. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges scholastic. I discovered this book in a lesson recorded in a math solutions book entitled minilessons for math practice k2. Once all ten fireflies are in the jar, however, the boy and the girl release them. A5 compare quantities, 1 to 10, using onetoone correspondence grade 1. Ten flashing fireflies interactive math smart board lesson. Listen to the story ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges. As you read the book, be sure to pause while you read and ask students guiding questions about number sense concepts subitzing, moreless, compare guiding questions. Then i looked up and pretended to see a light flashing, and then more, and soon hundreds of flashing lights. A boy and a girl catch fireflies during one summer night and place them in an empty jelly jar. Dec, 2019 two children catch fireflies on a summer night, putting them one by one into a jar until all ten are caught, and then they let them out to watch all ten fly away. Counting down from ten to one, a girl and a boy empty the night sky of fireflies ascounting up from one to tenthey fill their jar with them.

Flashing fireflies audiobook by laura hamilton waxman. Kindergarten a4 represent and describe numbers 2 to 10, concretely and pictorially. The obvious learning opportunity here is to practice counting down from ten, but can be easily extended to a subtraction by one activity. How many different ways could ten fireflies be arranged with some in the jar and some in the night. I did modify it a bit to be a bit more repetitive since my kids love repeating the rhyme lines with me.

I did use the book by philemon sturges as rhyme, so i will not be printing it here. May 04, 2016 there are 3 fireflies in my jar and 7 fireflies are in the sky. They discuss problem solving strategies, hear the story ten flashing fireflies, compose their own word problems, and complete a worksheet. Ten flashing fireflies paperback picture book, march 1, 1997 by philemon sturges author. Oct 17, 2011 the first grade teachers at school absolutely love introducing subtraction and addition number sentences to their kids using the book ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges. Ten flashing fireflies book columbus metropolitan library.

This is a great activity to do after reading 10 flashing fireflies. The story of 10 flashing fireflies is a wonderful counting book for young learners. The book simultaneously counts down and up, like this. In striving to enrich the lives of all readers, teachingbooks supports the first amendment and celebrates the right to read. Every time one firefly is collected in their jar shown on the left side of each page, this is one less in the sky shown on the right side of the book, see below. He was a professor emeritus of mathematics, statistics, and computer science at. Explore the fascinating life of fireflies, including information about their body parts and structure, their habitat and how it supports them, and their unique way of communicating.

Into the gloaming go two children, intent on gathering an ensemble of fireflies. This ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges lesson plan is suitable for 1st grade. Ten flashing fireflies book by philemon sturges, anna. Luminous pictures and a buoyant, chantaloud text, combine to make this twoway counting book as joyous and. Phil wagreich, founder, former lead author and curriculum developer. Chicago turabian humanities citation style guide sturges, philemon and anna.

First graders read a book to practice describing numbers and creating equations to solve story problems. Fireflies ii to end our camping theme, we sat around our pretend fire and told some ghost stories. I make construction paper fireflies or you can print and color the fireflies template in the resources and i have a plastic jar. Anna vojtechs luminous illustrations accompany philemon sturgess rhyming t. How many different ways could ten fireflies be arranged with some in the jar and some in the night sky. Ten flashing fireflies philemon sturges, author, a. At the end of the story, let the students put the counters away to represent the fireflies flying away.

Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges, 9781558586741, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. Philemon sturges was an architect and the author of several books for. Two children catch fireflies on a summer night, putting them one by one into a jar until all ten are caught, and then they let them out to watch all ten fly away. Ten flashing fireflies by philemon sturges, anna vojtech.