"I went to the playground and look what I found" Find out more

"I went to the playground and look what I found" is a story book designed to be read aloud together to introduce addition and multiplication.  It will enable the younger reader to add in pairs/ or multiply in multiples of twos.

The book will contain the following animals: gorillas, elephants, polar bears, rhinos, tigers, pandas.

All of these animals are endangered species. At the back of the book there will be information about endangered species, what that means, and how to find out more so you can "be part of the solution, not part of the problem."

Below is the beginnings of drawings for the book. If you would like to have one of your drawings in my book, please email your drawing to michaeljohnomeara@gmail.com

If you want to learn to draw an animal go to wedrawanimals.com

Thank you for visiting my blog. Please leave any comments below. Love Michael

PS. If you want to see some of my "Counting Sheep, (So I can Sleep)" book, click on the entry on the right.

Counting Sheep. Find out more.

"Counting sheep, so I can sleep" is the first in a series of books exploring early learning experiences and concepts.

For ages 2 to 5.

This book  introduces primary then secondary colours, early mathematics; numbers, counting, addition, direction and punctuation. It is designed to be read aloud and each page discussed, however the contents of each page are not to be used all a once. I envisage you returning to re-read this book, repeating the same experience often before moving on to later concepts. 

• Pages on the right within the book are for tracing, colouring in, outlining the numbers and later outlining the words and doing the sums.
• At the earliest developmental stage, the adult would read the book and point at each sheep as they count.
• Each page has numerals and number-words. Each page has a sum, which could be discussed at a later stage, as the child develops.
• Each page has next page and last page and later forwards and backwards –directional language. 
• Later readings could be where you introduce the punctuation; the full stop & later question & exclamation marks and even later ellipses and anthropomorphism!

If you would like to order a copy of the book for around £15.00 & PP, please email me & include your phone number and address: michaeljohnomeara@gmail.com The more orders I can get the cheaper the book will be.

The front & back cover:

Example of inside pages:

Dear Marlee,

 

We are sorry we cannot be with you on your birthday. 

Here is a preview of a bit of your present that we will give you on Sunday.

 We think you will recognise some sheep.

Love Michael And Bee.

Dear Mandy and Ben,

When you use the present with Marlee,  I would love to hear here how you have used it to help me improve it.

xx