Bunny Snores and Bouncing Paws

Building number sense in a child’s early years is the foundation for success in mathematics in their later years. The delightful finger play story of ‘Bunny Snores and Bouncing Paws’ presents verbal, written and symbolic representations of number in a fun and engaging way. The use of finger actions helps to develop a child’s number sense as they build on their perception and representation of numbers using fingers throughout the story.

‘Bunny Snores and Bouncing Paws’ can be sung to familiar tunes or chanted. This creates a powerful memory aid for children as they recall and represent essential number facts to ten.

As ‘Bunny Snores and Bouncing Paws’ is read, children are encouraged to use their fingers as they progress through the story. Once all the bunnies are ready to run and bounce outdoors, children should use their fingers to jump and bounce! The countdown represented in ‘Bouncing Paws and Bunny Snores’, further reinforces a child’s perception and representation of numbers using fingers.

The additional images in the book can promote discussion relating to a range of mathematical concepts. The time on the wall clock changes in five minute intervals prompting discussion relating to elapsed time. ‘The vivid designs on the bedspreads promotes discussion relating to patterns, shape, symmetry, line, arrays and fractions.

Whilst this book is written for children, it is a great resource for teachers and parents as they engage with children in the early years to build number sense. This multisensory book provides a feast of visual stimuli as well as auditory, language, rhythmic and movement experiences for children.