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It takes just a poem a day to count down to the 100th day of school!
Keep count with numbers.
Keep count with stars.
Keep count with beans
in a big glass jar.
Keep a long tally
and keep count with pins.
Keep track of how many
days there've been.
Keep count by ones.
Keep count by tens.
Keep count each day
and wait, wait, wait.
In February --
celebrate!
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Children Love This Book,
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This review is from: Counting Our Way to the 100th Day! (Hardcover)
I purchased this book for my sister who is a kindergarten teacher. The class reads a new page everyday. She says that the children love this book and look forward to it each day.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
It's the final countdown,
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This review is from: Counting Our Way to the 100th Day! (Hardcover)
Once in a while you see a picture book that steeps its illustrations in a thick coat of heavy-duty nostalgia. The somewhat recent "Halibut Jackson" had it. Anything by Hanako Wakiyama has it. And Betsy Franco's, "Counting Our Way to the 100th Day" has it too. Now there are plenty of books out there that discuss the 100th day of school for kids. I'm not entirely certain why this is. I mean, it's not as if school gets out on the 100th day or any particular celebration takes place at that time. Still, like its predecessors before it, "Counting Our Way", is goes through the usual rigmarole of checking off each day. As it stands, it's a perfectly nice book but not one that you can separate from its gimmicky premise.
For each day that's counted down in this hefty 48 page tome there are poems of varying lengths. The poems here have one common thread running through them: They must count 100 of something within their lines. A simple sounding premise, Franco exhausts every conceivable thing a child could count. Patchwork quilt squares, ostriches, centipede feet, etc. But since this kind of exercise might prove dull, she spots other poems with thoughtful ponderings on everything from the size of coins to the way to create 100 perfectly planted flowers. By the end, 100 poems have been successfully completed and 100 days counted down. There's a small flaw with this book. It may count down 100 days from the beginning of school, but it doesn't tend to keep its poems season-centric. Therefore poem #78 shows a kid in shorts while poem #10 is under the impression that dandelions are still in bloom in August. To be fair, though, Franco does tip her hat to a rough approximation of where holidays land. The best use of this book, by far, would be by teachers in schools. They could turn "Counting Our Way to the 100th Day" into a poem-a-day presentation. That way, kids would look eagerly towards hearing what the author has in store for them each and every day they're in the classroom. But will kids pick up this book on their own? Not so much. I'm not saying it's impossible but I've had two copies of this puppy in my New Books section of my children's room for 2 months, and neither parents nor children have been inclined to nab it. I think it definitely (like all the other 100 day books before it) has its uses, but I cannot imagine the child that checks it out for their own reading pleasure. Just my two cents.
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