Ages: K - 2
Discuss
- Why was the monkey looking for something else to eat? How would you like to eat just one thing, day after day? If you were on an island and had to pick one item to eat, what would it be?
- When the monkey spotted the banana tree, what did he decide to do?
- Why did the crocodiles want to be counted? Did the monkey need to count the crocodiles to know if there were more crocodiles than monkeys?
- Who are the monkey's friends in this book? How do they help him?
- Why did the monkey tell the crocodiles that he needed to count them twice?
- What character traits would you give to the monkey? What about the crocodiles?
- Have fun counting up to and down from 10. Take time to actually count each crocodile as you read the story.
- Since this is a rhyming story, after you have read the book a couple times, see if your child can complete the sentences for you. The visual clues are fantastic!
- Check out this website for a list of "rare" words found in the book. The free PDF also has numbered crocodiles that can be cut out and colored in.
- Numerical Sequencing
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