My Little Sister Ate One Hare

By Bill Grossman

Illustrated by Kevin Hawkes

NCTM Content Standard: Numbers and Operations and Probability

Summary: In this amusing picture book, readers follow the story of Little Sister as she eats all kinds of disgusting things and has no problem getting them down. But when Little Sister attempts to eat 10 peas, she throws up all over the place and creates a disgusting mess.

-Uses of this book:

K-1

- Counting - Ask the children if they notice a number pattern, or how the numbers change from page to page. Each time, the Little Sister eats one more disgusting thing than the page before until she reaches 10.

1-4

-Addition - Ask students to add up the total number of things that little sister eats

-Estimation - Have students estimate the total number of things that Little Sister eats, have students use a calculator to compute the total number.

4-6

-Probability - Students can play with probability and ratio by pretending all of the things that Little Sister ate were in one sack and figure out the probability of pulling out certain objects and the ratios of part to whole.