Bug Dance

MathStart Level 1

by Christopher Santoro

Crisp, clean cover and pages.

Genres: Mathematics, Picture Books, Childrens, Nonfiction, School, 1st Grade

40 pages, Hardcover

First published December 1, 2001

About the author

Christopher Santoro has been illustrating children’s books for more than thirty years. He is the illustrator of Grandpappy Snippy Snappies; A Pie Went By, a NEST Literary Classic; and the Dom DeLuise picture books Charlie the Caterpillar, Hansel and Gretel, The Nightingale, and King Bob’s New Clothes. Christopher has been honored by the Society of Illustrators, the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the American Library Association, and The New Yorker. He lives in Key West, FL, with two cats, Ernie and Truman, and a dog, Stuart.

Reviews

[jess ~has abandoned GR~ · Rating 5 out of 5]

Perfect for a group readaloud -- you can dance along.

[Vanessa Richards · Rating 4 out of 5]

The Bug Dance was a book about a centipede who had a hard time dancing but he loved gym class. He worked hard and got good at the dance and got to show off to the inchworm who was bullying him for his lack of gracefulness. I thought that this book was really good in the sense that we should not be picking on each other for not being amazing at it but instead, encourage them to work and get better at it. I also loved that you can do the actual dance with students which I think will make them want to read this book even more and as a brain break you can say let's do the bug dance and the students will know what you are talking about. This would make for a great read-aloud.
Author: Stuart J. Murphy
Illustrated: Christopher Santoro
Publisher: HarperCollins December 18, 2001

[Mary Teske]

This story would be really fun to have students participate in! While reading, students could do what the story is telling them to do. The book would help learn directions like right, left, forward, backward etc!

[Hailey Licata · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book was SO much fun! I would love to do this with my own kiddos in class. Doing the dance together could be so much fun, and there are even ways to implement it into a class as well as ways to change it up. It is awesome, helpful for math too!!!

[Sage · Rating 5 out of 5]

Absoultely favorite children’s book! This is a book that gets the students laughing moving and it has a math cconcept in the back of the book to get the students thinking. Get your piano ready it has a music note page to learn how to play the song.

[Dot Williams · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fun clever book

[Kelly Anderson · Rating 3 out of 5]

A cute buggy story that incorporates math vocabulary.

[Dolly · Rating 3 out of 5]

This is another fun story in the MathStart series by Stuart J. Murphy. We like these books; they incorporate math principles into the story and show how math is fun and necessary for everyday life.

This is a fun little book about learning a new dance, counting steps and practicing until you can do it correctly. It also shows that in many line dances, you keep repeating a series of steps, then turning ninety degrees until you end up right where you started. The book has lively, colorful illustrations and a narrative that is fun to read aloud. We enjoyed reading this story together.

[Dylan & Belle at LearnPlayFun · Rating 5 out of 5]

The bug dance was my favourite part. I love it because you can do it in your favourite room, but not just any ordinary room. Okay, follow the steps to do the dance. Here it is. Two steps to the left, two steps to the right, hop forward once, hop backwards once and now turn right. There are more things that you have to do but it's fun. The ants were the cutest bugs.

Rated and reviewed by Dylan, age 8.

[Amy · Rating 3 out of 5]

Direction skills - since the book introduces a dance, should be fun to do with preschoolers, including the suggested follow-up activities.

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[Megan Skyrm · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a great book to do in class as an activity.

[Olson Family Matters · Rating 4 out of 5]

We LOVED doing the bug dance and working on our left and right.