Summary:
The book starts off explaining how to add and gives easy examples. It asks how many butterflies have spots, then it wants you to cut out some paper to add spots to the ones that don’t have any! Then wants to know how many butterflies have spots now! The book goes on like this and starts to get harder. By the end of the book they are also getting them started on subtraction!

Personal Reaction:
I really enjoy this story because it is not just a book, but also teaches them math in a hands on activity way! I would love to use this book when teaching younger students to add and subtract!

Classroom Extension Ideas:
1. When teaching children to add I would use this book as a group activity. Spilt the students into centers making this one of them for them to get there hands on the book and practicing!
2. I would then use the book as a review and a transition into subtraction!

Summary: I Can Add Up is a counting activity book. It is full of question about the number of things on a page. The book also ask you to cut out objects, add them to the book, and then count the pictures again. The book introduces adding and taking away using the illustrations and cut outs.

Personal Thoughts: This book is a great way to get children involved in math. The activities are a fun and exciting way to learn to add. The cut outs can help students better understand counting. This book also can reach children who are visual, auditory, or hands on learners.

Classroom ideas:
1. Call on different student to answer the questions in the book by counting.
2. Print off pages of the book so that the students can use the cut outs to help them solve the problems.

So this book is called I CAN ADD and it is an excellent book for first addition learners. The book allows the students to work problems from the book and add things to pictures. For example, the book will be showing a group on lions and only three have tails. The student would cut a pies of yarn and add two for tail to the group and all the lions would have a tail. The book is an excellent manipulative for addition.

The book does sort of relate to me. When I was younger I had a huge problem with math. If I were able to read something along this books road I may have gotten math a little quicker than I did. I would most differently have understood addition a whole lot better.

I would most definitely use the book in my elementary class room. Mainly for students who are having problems with addition. I would have a list of material need to used the book as a manipulative. The yarn and colored paper with some scissors. I then would read the book to the student and have the student work out the problem as we read along.