Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons

Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons
By: Eric Litwin
Created and Illustrated by: James Dean
Harper, 2012
30 pages
Picture Book

 

 Have you ever had a favorite shirt and some of the buttons fall off? Well Pete the Cat has one with four totally groovy buttons.  He even sings a song about it!  Does Pete the Cat cry when one of his buttons fall off?  Goodness, no!  Let's count down together and see how many buttons he has left in Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons.

            As a child, I would have loved to read this book!  James Dean did a wonderful job creating and illustrating this book.   Pete the Cat is such a colorful book.  Almost every page is filled with bright extravagant colors.  Even the text is in multiple colors.  This book also has a song that goes along with the story.

I could use buttons with the students during small group and let the students make their own shirt before I read the book and allow them to take buttons off each time he lost a button for a math lesson.  I could also allow the kids to count along with Pete as he loses buttons.  I would keep track of the buttons lost on the board and allow the students to do the math in their groups and then let one student write it on the board.  Then another math lesson I could do is have the students make patterns with different buttons after I draw them on the board.