The purpose of this activity is for students to create a number book about their school community. Students share their work with a partner, receive feedback, and then improve their work (MP3). In the Activity Synthesis, students will create a title and front cover for their book. As students work during the activity, have them leave the first page blank. If time allows, invite students to make a rough draft and then a final draft of their book.

• “Now that we’ve made the pages for our book, we should think of a title for the book. A title can tell you what the book is about. What are our books about?” (Our school, numbers, objects, math)
• 1 minute: quiet think time
• Share and record responses.
• “You can use some of these words to help you think of a title for your book. Once you have written your title, you can draw a picture for the front cover.”
• 5 minutes: independent work time

• “What new things did you learn about our school from the number books?”