There Were Ten in the Bed (Ages 2-6)

Turn the wheel in the book and count down from 10 to 0 as the bed fellows fall out of the bed one by one. This book helps children to count forwards and backwards using numbers to 10 with the added element of music. Like other books in this series, it is a pattern book with a verse repeating over and over so any child can quickly sing along. The multi-national children are on a dial at the back of the book so one falls out as you turn the dial.  The next page shows the child on the floor with the others that fell out. Match the child on the floor to the dial and you have a pre-reading skill - identifying things that are the same. Add the children on the floor to the children on the dial and you have numbers up to 19. Numbers in a sequence are merely a rhyme or verse to children until they can match "things" to the numbers ... 8 children, count them as 8 not just as the middle word in a line "7-8-9".

Benefits:

* these books help children develop visual, auditory and tactile skills (sight, sound, and feel)
* all books in the series are interactive; an interactive book helps increase fine and gross motor skills, attention span and curiousity with the book
* develop awareness of sentence patterns
* includes music in sentence patterns (e.g. sing 10 in a bed)
* patterns are short and easily memorized
* children quickly master this series because of the cumulative patterns
* promotes active participation and response
* simple and direct texts

* Key Learning Areas:

Fine Motor - Manipulation Skills
Maths - Numbers & Counting

*Hard Cover
*Art Work - bright, bold, colourful, interesting illustrations - humorous
*Illustrator Annie Kubler
*Binding - stitched