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Hello Reader! Math Level 1
Monster Math School Time
For use in schools and libraries only. From the time they get up at seven in the morning until they go to bed at eight o'clock at night, monsters spend a busy day, especially at school. Includes related activities.
32 pages, Library Binding
First published January 1, 1997
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Grace Maccarone
122 books18 followersGrace Maccarone is an American children’s book editor and author, notably of Miss Lina’s Ballerinas, illustrated by Christine Davenier, and its sequel Miss Lina’s Ballerinas and the Prince. She has also worked as an editor at Scholastic, Wireless Generation, and currently Holiday House.
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February 14, 2015
Monster Math School Time by Grace Maccarone is a fun little story about what monsters do throughout the day. The monsters are personified as children doing different activates that one would find a child doing throughout their day. The purpose of the story is to teach children about time in a fun way. On the last pages of the book the author took time to give information on how to use the story of the monsters as a teaching tool.
“At ten o’clock they show and tell.” The illustrator really plays with the idea that monsters can sometimes be seen as scary yet depicts them as very child like on the show and tell page. Some monsters are shown bringing a scary thing in a paper bag; one monster brings in two very angry looking crabs, and one has a puppet skeleton. On the other hand one monster has brought in a cute bunny rabbit. All of the monsters are shown as very happy and proud to have brought their favorite thing to show and tell. Not one monster looks like they brought in something to scare anyone. The illustrator addresses the idea of the child reading the book thinking of monsters as scary so well on the show and tell page. The child can relate to the monsters and not be afraid of them.
The illustrator helps to reinforce the authors’ text on every page. There are two clocks in each illustration, a digital clock and a clock with hands. The reader gets to experience learning about time three different ways, through the text, through the image of the digital clock and through the traditional image of the hand clock. The illustrator continues the learning with signs in all different places in the illustrations such as a sign with a picture of the stop light that reads “Red means STOP.” The child can learn just as much from the illustrations or perhaps even more than from the text.
“At ten o’clock they show and tell.” The illustrator really plays with the idea that monsters can sometimes be seen as scary yet depicts them as very child like on the show and tell page. Some monsters are shown bringing a scary thing in a paper bag; one monster brings in two very angry looking crabs, and one has a puppet skeleton. On the other hand one monster has brought in a cute bunny rabbit. All of the monsters are shown as very happy and proud to have brought their favorite thing to show and tell. Not one monster looks like they brought in something to scare anyone. The illustrator addresses the idea of the child reading the book thinking of monsters as scary so well on the show and tell page. The child can relate to the monsters and not be afraid of them.
The illustrator helps to reinforce the authors’ text on every page. There are two clocks in each illustration, a digital clock and a clock with hands. The reader gets to experience learning about time three different ways, through the text, through the image of the digital clock and through the traditional image of the hand clock. The illustrator continues the learning with signs in all different places in the illustrations such as a sign with a picture of the stop light that reads “Red means STOP.” The child can learn just as much from the illustrations or perhaps even more than from the text.
July 14, 2020
So the book I chose to read was a modern fantasy book. The book is about monsters and how their schedule is throughout the day. Not only does it explain their day it is also a educational book because you will read how they learn to tell time.
The book was a very cute book that will help your students stayed focused in class. The book starts at six o'clock when the monsters get up, then at seven o' clock they eat breakfast. At eight o'clock they go off to school. While they are at school the monsters are learn to spell, show and tell, read, plant a seed, eat, compete, subtract, a science fact, at three o'clock they go home, and at four they catch and throw, at five o'clock they paste and glue, have stew bath and play monster math. These are some things that the monsters do throughout the day. They actually stay on task with each other all day from six o' clock in the morning till eight o'clock at night when they lay down and go to sleep. I would recommend this book to my friends because the kids will stay engaged due to the colorful pages and character and the story is also educational.
The book was a very cute book that will help your students stayed focused in class. The book starts at six o'clock when the monsters get up, then at seven o' clock they eat breakfast. At eight o'clock they go off to school. While they are at school the monsters are learn to spell, show and tell, read, plant a seed, eat, compete, subtract, a science fact, at three o'clock they go home, and at four they catch and throw, at five o'clock they paste and glue, have stew bath and play monster math. These are some things that the monsters do throughout the day. They actually stay on task with each other all day from six o' clock in the morning till eight o'clock at night when they lay down and go to sleep. I would recommend this book to my friends because the kids will stay engaged due to the colorful pages and character and the story is also educational.
June 29, 2018
My children love these little books. They thoroughly enjoy each and every story, as if they are all unique and individual without any cause for similarity among them. Even though sometimes, they might seem tedious and repetitive to me as a parent, I do enjoy being able to read short-stories to my children that are clean and respective.
October 29, 2019
I like this book. The illustrations are good. The text is bite sized, but there are words my son has learned reading this book. The first time he read it he lingered over the illustrations and as we reread it he developed his story about the illustrations. And I've created a blog about my son's schedule based on the kind of schedule the kids have.
July 22, 2016
Such a cute book. From the time the monsters wake up they are busy doing something at certain times of the day.
When working with time I would:
Have clock manipulative for students to model the times that the monsters are busy doing things.
I would also look at our class schedule and have them model the time on their clocks.
When working with time I would:
Have clock manipulative for students to model the times that the monsters are busy doing things.
I would also look at our class schedule and have them model the time on their clocks.
February 22, 2013
This book show the different routines that the monsters go through at each time of the day. There are not many words in the book except for the time telling concepts. This book can be used in my classroom to help teach about time and routines.
July 21, 2012
Monsters go about their day as we learn telling time to the hour and sometimes half hour. Illustrations show both a digital and analog clock.
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