□ There is some math in this book, but it's just very basic math with plus problems only, such as: 1 + 1 = 2 5 + 5 = 10 etc. In a good way, it does help children learn how to pronounce it much easier way, but on the other hand, I found it could be misleading, and they might end up pronouncing it incorrectly instead of correctly. □ Ah right, I know this is a story about ants, but did you need to put every word that contains the word "ANT" in capital letters?įor example: "constANTly" "plANTs" "gigANTic" "giANT" "vacANT" "repentANT" "mANTles" "tenANTs" etc But then they become friends with this elephant.The end! □ The story itself is just about ants who are working to build their home and, at the end, get stepped on by an elephant. □ When I picked up this book, I thought it would teach little kids about how ants worked or how they interacted with each other, but it did neither. □ Way too colorful there are some pages where i felt like the colors overlapped. Even if slightly flawed, the way this does more than the routine – taking more work on its shoulders and carrying it all off perfectly well enough – is top marks. Is this a maths reviser the very young will want to re-read? Count on it. But that aside I just didn't expect this book to have it all – the educational aspect as well as the strong entertainment from the surprise. What with the colourfully-presented maths, and the count-along aspects, and the rhyming narrative, and the twist, I thought the constANT word punning was actually too much, a case of bad form(ica). We then start to count down backwards – only to find that not only is all this going on, but we're due a major surprise as well. So we get the narrative of their sort-of chant as they labour, and very easy sums, and a revision to one-to-ten, including a checklist midpoint through things. We're with a troupe of ants who are building their new home, and luckily it is a solitary building, of two floors, with three this and four that, and before long we're counting up, just as at the same time the industrious workers are doing their relevant maths. Copies of BCSD’s Uniform Complaint policy, Sexual Harassment policy, and Nondiscrimination policies are available here and upon request.A book that might not look like a five-starrer, but by the rules I set myself (ie the rules I set the books I review) this has to deserve it, for going the extra step and including the unexpected amongst the routine stuff someone would buy it for. If you believe you, or your student, have been subjected to discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying you should contact your school site principal and/or the District’s Chief Compliance and Title IX Officer, Erin Johnston, by phone at (661) 631-4663, by email at or in person at 1300 Baker Street, Bakersfield, CA 93305. Not all bases of discrimination will apply to both education services and employment. BCSD prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying in any employment practice, education program, or educational activity on the basis and/or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics of age, race or ethnicity, color, ancestry, nationality, national origin, immigration status, ethnic group identifications, religion, pregnancy, marital status, parental status, physical disability, mental disability, sex (including sexual harassment), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, medical information, genetic information, homelessness, foster status, military veteran status, political affiliation or any other basis prohibited by California state and federal nondiscrimination laws consistent with Education Code 200, 220 and 234.1, Penal Code 422.55, Government Code 11135, and Title IX. The Bakersfield City School District (BCSD) is committed to equal opportunity for all individuals in education and in employment.
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