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The Spoons Eat Ice Cream: A Math Measuring Story
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The Spoons Eat Ice Cream: A Math Measuring Story (2011) (edit title/settings)

by Carolyn Wilhelm (Author) (edit contributors)

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This story helps young learners understand that 1/4 is smaller than 1/2, which is often news to them. First graders think 1/100th is a huge number before the fraction unit each year. This story begins and ends with the question, "Which is more? 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4?" You might be surprised at... read more

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This story begins and ends with the question, "Which is more? 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4?" You might be surprised at what children think about that! A family of spoons send their children to help neighbors on helping day. Teen Spoon (1/2 tsp), Boy Spoon (1/3 tsp), and Girl Spoon (1/4 tsp) help their... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

This story begins and ends with the question, "Which is more? 1/2, 1/3, or 1/4?" You might be surprised at what children think about that! A family of spoons send their children to help neighbors on helping day. Teen Spoon (1/2 tsp), Boy Spoon (1/3 tsp), and Girl Spoon (1/4 tsp) help their neighbors measure honey, baking soda, chocolate sauce, sprinkles, coconut shavings and more. They share their ice cream with a gorilla at the town ice cream social that is at the end of every helping day.

The point of this story is to help young children compare fractions of 1/2, 1/3, and 1/4th to realize that 1/4th is the smallest. Also, there is some educational information about these fractions at the end of the story.

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  • Family of Spoons, personified: Mom and Dad Spoon, Teen Spoon (1/2 a teaspoon), Boy Spoon (1/3 a teaspoon), Girl Spoon (1/4 a teaspoon),the town Gorilla,Bea Bird,Annie Ant
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Quotes edit see section history

  • “"Let me help," said Girl Spoon. I'm 1/4th which is bigger than 1/2!""Not in fractions," said Teen Spoon.”

First Sentence edit see section history

The Spoon Family was a busy family, and they were always on the go

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not a chapter book

Authors & Contributors edit see section history

  1. Carolyn Wilhelm (Author) - Carolyn wrote this story and illustrated it by combining graphics from licensed sources.

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: self publish on Amazon
Country: USA
Publication Date: May 30, 2011
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Notes for Parents edit see section history

Reading Level: Ages 4-8

Parents, this book is for you to help your young children have some fraction readiness before school.

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  • The Wise Owl Factory Book a Day Blog: The Wise Owl Factory Book a Day Blog is also written by Carolyn Wilhelm and the entry for THE SPOONS EAT ICE CREAM, A MATH MEASURING STORY has twoFREE PDF pages of work pages to accompany the story, a FREE PDF answer key, and a short FREE Power Point about the fractions in the story.

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