The Doorbell Rang

Summary
In this story, Ma made cookies for Victoria and Sam. She told them to share the cookies between themselves. This would have allowed them to get six cookies each but the doorbell rang and friends, Tom and Hannah came over. This made them share the cookies, 3 each. After a while Tom and his

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bother came over, which made them get two each. The doorbell rang once more, their neighbor and four cousins. This made them get one each. The doorbell kept on ringing until the cookies were running out. There was not enough to share. They kept on repeating the line "No one makes cookies like grandma." Finally grandma knocked on the door with an enormous tray of cookies to share for all.

Personal Reaction
I enjoyed reading this story because of the fact that it seemed as though grandma taught Ma how to bake cookies. The children kept on saying they looked and taste like grandma. This story seemed like a true story because of the real life scenes of a kitchen, dining room and Ma at work. I also liked how they kept on sharing and sharing as their friends kept visiting. The colorful scenes made the entire story quite interesting and fun to read.

Extensions
This story can be used to teach the concept of sharing to younger children. It can also be used as an introduction to a Math lesson addition, division and multiplication. Students can also be asked to write down what they would have done or how they would have felt if they were in Sam and Victoria's shoes.

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This book was really cute. It was about a mom making cookies and poeple kept coming over and they all said the cookies smelled like Grandma's cookies. Then when all of the cookies were gone, Grandma came over and brought more cookies. If I read this book to a class I would bake them cookies and let

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the kids eat them while I read the story.

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This is a really sweet book about sharing.

This book is about a mom cooking her kids an afternoon snack to share but one after one the neighborhood kids start ringing the doorbell. Of course they are all invited to share the cookies and by the end the kitchen is full and everyone only gets one cookie a piece. At the very end the doorbell

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rings one last time..it's grandma with another tray of cookies so there are plently to go around.

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A fun little picture book with a refrain and an ending that could be predicted. Very useful for getting concepts such as sharing, division and fractions across to the youngest of students; highly recommended for preschool through possibly second or in some cases third grade.

The kids have some cookies made just like Grandma's, and there are enough for everyone. But, the doorbell keeps ringing, and friends keep coming in. How many will they end up with?

Sharing can be challenging, and being flexible is hard, but when there are cookies on the table and lots of people want to eat them, that's what needs to happen. This book is a great conversation starter for kids learning to share and be flexible. The repetition and predictability of the text helps

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make it a great shared reading with young readers.

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Hutchins, P. (1986). The doorbell rings. New York, NY: Greenwillow Books.

In The Doorbell Rang, Ma makes cookies for Victoria and Sam. The kids decide to each eat six cookies. However, this number keeps changing as guests arrive. As more people show up, the kids have to recalculate how many cookies

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they can eat. This picture book is appropriate for children ages five to seven. It can be used to teach division. Not only will kids enjoy determining how many cookies each person can eat, but they will also like the refrain:
‘ “No one makes cookies like Grandma,” said Ma as the doorbell rang.” ’

Although The Doorbell Rang is a fun book that uses realistic objects to teach division, I think that Jonas’s Splash is more engaging, because she does not say how many animals are in the pond. Readers will have to figure it out. However, in The Doorbell Rang, Hutchins tells readers how many cookies each person will eat as the cookies are divided up. Since readers are told the answers, this means that the guesswork is taken out.

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Repetitive book that keeps readers guessing who is ringing the doorbell now? Allows for children to learn manners for their friends and family member. Creative book that keel the readers interactive throught pages.

Victoria and Sam are just sitting down to a plateful of Ma's cookies when the doorbell rings, and two of their friends arrive to share the feast. The doorbell rings again and again and each time the number of cookies per person dwindles until at last there is only one cookie per person and . . .

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the doorbell rings again! (Luckily, it's Grandma arriving with reinforcements.) Hutchins's quirky illustrations nicely depict her suspenseful tale; the characters have an unusually authentic feeling and convey a strong sense of family. The book is, of course, a mini-lesson in short division and allows students to learn the concept without realize they are learning.

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The social lesson that no matter how many children arrive each time the doorbell rings, the family will share the cookies with them. The mother has baked a dozen cookies for her two kids to eat, so when each additional friend arrives the dozen is divided to share with the new kids.

Each time the doorbell rings, there are more people who have come to share Ma's wonderful cookies.

The book incorporates math within it. It's a great book to use with children when you are introducing the concept of multiplication and division. The artwork is exquisite!! It's done with water color but there are so many different designs that you actually spend a couple minutes viewing the

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details per page, such as the flowered skirt, checkered table clothe and cookie crumbs on the table.

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I liked this simple division book quite well. The kids are initially excited to get a half-dozen cookies each -- but their faces become glummer and glummer as more and more friends come over and the cookies are divided among more people. But there's a happy ending! Kids and company are ethnically

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diverse.

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Summary: This book is about a mother who makes cookies for her children and tells them to share them among themselves. The children say the cookies look and smell as good as grandma's cookies. Mom saids, " No one makes cookies like grandma", and then the doorbell rings. With each doorbell ring more

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and more children come over to share the cookies. Eventually all the children haveone cookie each and the doorbell rings again. The children don't want to answer the door until each one eats their cookie. When they answer the door, its grandma with a lot of cookies. Plenty of cookies for all the children.

Personal Reaction: This is a good book about sharing. As the doorbell rings, the mom invites the children in to share the cookies. Sam and Victoria gladly divide up the cookies each time. This could be a good book to use during a math lesson.

Classroom Extensions: 1. I can read this book to students when discussing sharing, and students can write what sharing is to them. 2. I can use this book during a math lesson. Two children start out with 12 cookies and as more friends show up the children divide up the cookies among them. I can use this to show how to divide.

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I really like the rhyming lilting tone of this book. It makes for excellent reading to younger children and even though I'm older I still revisit it from time to time.

This is an older book, but it does a great job getting students excited about division and understanding the concept.

This is a very simple mathematical introduction to division by twelve and the inverse operation of multiplication. It's not a great story, but the intent isn't great storytelling here. It's a repetitive pattern story. It's a dialogue driven story. Very good for its purpose.

A sweet book on the matter of sharing, no matter how many people come. Ma has just made some cookies, enough for two, but the doorbell rings and rings and rings. Will there be enough to share.
Ages 4 and up
Pierce College Library

A mother and her children are about to eat a batch of cookies but every time they sit down to eat more people show up to join them.
Source: Pierce College Library
Ages: 5-7

Cute story the teaches about all about sharing.

Grandma makes cookies and in the beginning of the story the children each get six. Every time the door bell rings, more and more friends arrive to share the cookies.
Ages: 4-6
Source: Classroom Library

A story about sharing that teaches mathematical concepts. A fun activity would be acting out this story using real or pretend cookies to make the information more meaningful.

This book is about two children who had to share their cookies with a lot of friends.
ages 4-5
from ECE LIbrary