Math and Poetry Fun
WITH SIDNEY THE SILLY AND FRIENDS
By M. W. Penn
Gumboot Books
Softcover, ISBN: 978-0-9784047-3-4
Join Sidney and his friends in the palace for 100 pages of poetry and math games. Ella Even, Oscar the Odd Job Man, Skinny Minnie who only eats 1, Picky Nicky who seldom eats any and many others who live within the palace walls pose problems in verse and solve quandaries in rhyme. They also explore the similarities between verse and meter, pattern and order.
Dr. Edward Zigler, of the Zigler Institute for Child Development at Yale and the ‘father’ of the Head Start program, said of Sidney the Silly, “Penn’s creative use of rhyme and numbers is a model of how to help the young child begin to master the demanding tasks of mastering literacy and numeracy.”
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