reading materials

While pondering how to buy her mother a birthday present with no money, Deena find a penny and follows a process of discovery about how pennies add up to nickels, which add up to dimes, all the way up to four quarters making a dollar.

Stranded on the moon after his extraordinary airplane takes him into outer space, a boy meets a marooned young Martian with a broken spacecraft, and the two new friends work together to return to their respective homes.

Explores ways to use math while in the city.

After safeguarding her heart in a bottle hung around her neck, a girl finds the bottle growing heavier and her interest in things around her becoming smaller.

Eager to have a star of his own, a boy devises imaginative ways of catching one.

For a chance to win a trip to Space Camp, Jim sets out to collect 10,000 Blast Off Energy Bar wrappers, grouping them as he goes to make counting easier, and soon the whole town is helping him out.

The teacher helps the students celebrate their 100th day of school by counting things such as seashells, marbles, and popcorn in sets of one hundred.

Two pen pals who live in different parts of the world write back and forth and tell each other about the events and traditions that take place during each month of the year.

Close up images show how some animals grow bigger and look the same while some go through metamorphosis and change into something different.

Introduces the responsibility of saving money for future use and provides a topic-related problem to reinforce math skills.