Enjoy On The Launch Pad: A Counting Book About Rockets Crafted By Michael Dahl Represented In Interactive EBook
astronaut counting book! we are still getting the hang of this book and all it has to offer, but it's very creative Kids love rockets and space and this is a great book that shows how the rockets are prepared for launch.
The colors and illustrations are simple yet fun and kids will enjoy the countdown to liftoff,
This is a great book that works on counting but instead of counting up this book counts down which is a nice change for kids.
Another thing kids can do with this book is find the hidden numbers throughout the pages, This is a great book for toddlers to
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Good counting practice, the simplicity of the illustration allows kids to focus on counting each object while still learning space vocab, I liked how there was the written number as well as the number printed on each page, Perfect for storytime! Tips and Activities:
This is a nonfiction counting down math book, A short explanation to the children may be needed to let them know that counting down means counting backwards from, in this case, You could practice counting down pointing to the numbers on a number chart if it is available,
Look for the hidden number in the illustration on each page!
Count the items on each page,
On one of the last pages there is a list of Fun Facts: Share a few with them,
Sing “Zoom, zoom, zoom” Count back from, just like in the book!
Questions to Ask:
Whats inside the trucks
What do the radars do
Would you like to be an astronaut Where would you go
Beginning with, we count down to blast off as a rocket is readied for launch.
Turning the bookdegrees on the final page for a vertically aligned BLAST OFF! adds a bit of interest,
This is a standard counting down book, designed to teach early number skills, Each number is given at the side of the page in a repeating format as a numeral, a word, and in dots for subitizing, There is also some number of things to count within the illustration itself as part of the narrated story "EIGHT trucks carry the fuel, ", and a numeral hidden on every page which is fun to hunt for,
Some of the things to be counted will be tricky for kids at this developmental level, On the more familiar side there are, trucks, astronauts, windows, and a rocket, but there are also workers, engineers, spotlights, radar dishes, control panels, launch towers, and rocket engines.
I like that there is a visually diverse mix of people, including lots of women and people with different skin colors, represented, A nice pick for that numberobsessed kid with attention issues,
I review children's books from the perspective of a parent of two kids with autism, This review is part of a list ofrecommended picture books with space themes for autistic kids, which can be found on my blog: sitelink lineupthebooks. com/pic A countdown from twelve to one as a space shuttle awaits liftoff, Readers are invited to find hidden numbers on an illustrated activity page, We brought home a ton of space books, Of all of them, this one was the winner he kept coming back to, I liked it too. Sometimes a nice simple picture book is a relief after reading lengthy board books with like The Little Cub which has paragraphs and paragraphs on it'spages.
Read this and several others like ittimes a day and your voice will be so happy for something simple, Too bad the book had several tears in it before it got to us, and I didn't keep it more than a few days because I don't want little hands to make them worse.
So off it goes. This is a counting book, in count down fromformat, with a space theme that focuses only on the actual launch pad environment, It is part of the Know Your Numbers series by Picture Window Books, The pictures are simple and bold and offer take off points of discussion, such as, fuelling the rockets and the command centre,
The number, number word and dots are on each page as well as a fun, hidden number to find, I would have preferred the dots in a dice format orframe style,
Once open, you turn the pagetimes, The pictures are bold enough that you can easily count the forms with a group, It can be simplified for a younger group, For all pages exceptandwhich share a double page, every number has its own full double page,
With regard to diversity, there are many shades of skin, many hairstyles, including male pattern baldness, females, and older persons with grey hair.
This is definitely an appropriate book to share with younger children in Preschool or Kindergarten,
A simple but elegant book to help kids learn how to count down fromto blastoff, The illustrations are great and the people shown working at launch facility technicians, engineers, astronauts, etc are a mix of races and genders, This is a counting book about the steps taken to launch a rocket, It would work for a counting storytime or a storytime on rockets/outer space, A twelvetoone rocket countdown picture book, Focusing on the preparations for a rocket to blastoff, each double page spread has items to count with the matching number to locate, There is also information and resources at the back of the book that will add to the On the Launch Pad's usefulness, Cute for early readers. The hiding numbers add a little to the sparseness of the text, One problem with checking out books from the Childrens Room is that they are sometimes kind of sticky, This one is also kind of smelly, DNF, no fault of the author or illustrator OK as a counting book, nice bright pictures, text is a bit hohum, Last minute cover for E, 's Toddler storytime space theme, Quick glance through and I thought this book would be good, Had some counting we could do, and good lead in to Zoom Zoom Zoom rhyme, Storytime Themes: Space, Counting. STEM I like how each number presents facets of a rocket launch, I enjoy the art and have found it fun to see where the artist has hidden each of the twelve numbers, It is a nice counting book which exposes readers to different people amp elements that are part of a rocket launch, It is also a very inclusive book with men and women of different ethnicity portrayed, At the end of the book is one long page and you can see the finished product the rocket ship, Children are engaged with this book counting the hidden numbers on their free time, Children are learning onetoone correspondence and seeing that it takes a team to create a rocket launch, I would use this during a small group activity that focuses on counting, Here's a fun little book that counts backward fromduring the preparation for the launch of a rocket, In On the Launch Pad by Michael Dahl, younger space fans will enjoy exploring the simple colorful illustrations by Derrick alderman and Denise Shea, Fun Facts and a list of hidden numbers can be found on the back page, There is a website listed as well where you can find websited related to the book, Great book! Myyo son loved this one! Such a fun book of counting! With twos, we mostly read and counted, though as a child grows, more could be learned about the science and technology portion and what the objects in the book do.
Some research might be required! : Michael Dahl is the author of overchildrens books, Some of his most popular series are Finnegan Zwake, Library of Doom, and Dragonblood, He resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a haunted house, He also writes under aliases sitelink Chris Carey, Rick Thomas, and sitelink Mark Ziegler, Michael Dahl is the author of overchildren's books, Some of his most popular series are Finnegan Zwake, Library of Doom, and Dragonblood, He resides in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in a haunted house, He also writes under aliases sitelink Chris Carey, Rick Thomas, and sitelink Mark Ziegler, sitelink.