Need a fun way to practice beginning number concepts? With Monster Numbers, you're off to a great start. Students will learn how to count, number order, handwriting numerals and find ways to make numbers! Using a creative, themed ten frame (a Monster Keeper) students will enjoy mastering numbers 1-10.

Update: The audio book is also a Youtube video!

Included: 

• 35 page book called, "Monster Numbers" (Work on developing beginning counting concepts. The book hits standards in two parts. Starting off, students learn that counting is touching items 1:1 and saying the next number that comes in order. The second half is taking that knowledge and practicing 1:1 using the pictures and learning to handwrite the numbers 1-10 using simple, catchy chants.)
• Audio recording (mp3) of this book ready to be burned onto a CD.
• CD label image
• 3 differentiated sets of number puzzles (Matching numbers to ten frames 1-10)
• Handwriting 0-10 chant poster/parent resource
• 11 page "My Monster Numbers" mini-book (Students can practice making, writing and showing ways to make numbers 5-10.)
• 5 workmats and 5 matching recording sheets (Practice ways to make numbers 5-10 using objects and simple addition)
• Manipulative monster pictures and monster-themed ten frames (Monster-Keepers)

Helps Meet Common Core Mathematics Standards:

• K.CC.3.a Recognize numbers from 0-10.
• K.CC.3.b Print numbers from 0-9 when prompted. 
• K.CC.4.a Count objects by touching them singularly while saying the number name.
• K.CC.4.b-1 Recognize that the last number named tells the number of objects counted.
• K.CC.4.c Recognize that each successive number name refers to a quantity that is one larger.
• K.MP.4. Model with mathematics.
• K.OA.1.a Represent addition with objects, fingers, and sounds to identify the meaning of addition as putting together and adding to.
• K.OA.1.c Explain orally addition as putting together and adding to.
• K.OA.4.a State the number that makes 5 when added to any given number 1-4 with objects.