Big fat hen

Big Fat Hen a classic nursey rhyme age appropriate for pre-k to kindergarten. This is an old familiar rhyme that will be known by some of the students and learned by the others. The illustrations fill the page and are quite colorful. The rhyme takes you through the counting scheme interrupted with

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rhyming the numbers. The font is beautifully bold. The edition of the final pages were not orignal to the rhyme but allow for a wonderful addition to an old story. A counting activity for nearly and page selected. The children could pick out additional rhyming words for the teacher to write on the board. The teacher could point out the letters that cause the same sound. This is a great vocal activity for the class. Explain to the class that the Big Fat Hen is a story about neatness and proper behavior.

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Good way to help kids learn how to count.

This was a favorite of mine when I was a little girl. It is a great book for memorizing how to count to ten. The rhyme/song is a classic. The pictures are very bold and colorful.

This book follows the familiar nursery rhyme "One Two, Buckle my Shoe." We follow the story of the hen and also meet her friends and all of their eggs. This is a great book for the kids to help read, as the numbers are not written as "three" but 3.

I loved the fact that the kids can help read this

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one two. It teaches number recognition. It takes me back to the Mother Goose books I have read. They were never this richly illustrated. I love the fact that this simple story reaches beyond the nursery rhyme and tries to tell you more about the "big fat hen."

There are some great preschool possibilities for extensions. If I premade a sheet and drew 4 evenly spaced vertical lines and one horizontal line in the middle, I would have 10 tiny boxes. In each box, I could write a number. The kids could color the number and then glue beans, rice, peas on each number to show "how many" each number is. We could also get out feathers and other materials and make our own "Big Fat Hens."

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This rhyme is very popular and easy to memorize so young children will get a kick out of it. The acrylic paintings make the colored illustrations really pop. I like that Baker has used crazy colors for different objects, like green for hens. It really makes each object stand out.

This is a great way

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to introduce counting into the classroom. You can incorporate little pebbles or balls and imagine that they are chicks. Each student can begin to learn to count this way.

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This is a great book for preschool kids. It goes with the song one two buckle my shoe. It was neat to see a story that you could almost sing the song to the story, plus you got pictures with the song. I have read this at the daycare I work at and they love looking at the pictures and counting along

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with me.

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9, 10, a big fat hen! I think one of the better counting books. Easy for children to recognize numbers with things to count relating clearly to numbers on every page. Ask, "what number?" and if children do not recognize number, ask them to use the book as a resource to find out by counting. A

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lesson plan could stem from this using cut out eggs to work on addition and subtraction.

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This is a cute little book. The illustrations are bold and and folk like. There are eggs and insects that corelate to the simple counting rhyme. I loved this book becuse it is a ryhme I grew up saying. Overall I think that this is a great book to get a young reader to count and learn what numbers

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like.

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The pictures are big. The text are big. The lines of within the chicken is great to see. The amount of time on the art really shows because all the little line within each "thing" is easily spotted.

This book is good because, like a couple other books I've read, the text rhymes with the numbers, making the reading easier and more fun for children. It helps with counting by display of numbers and by visual representation.

Cute book with rhyme to get kids to count and get their number in order. The pictures don't really make to much sense and jump from one thing to another so I wasn't super fond of those. But the nursery rhymes were good for kids.

This book with really colorful illustrations is perfect to help the children learn and practice count.

This is such a cute counting book. I love the illustrations and the nursery rhyme "one, two, buckle my shoe" it is one of my all time favorites. I also enjoy the visual number representations at the end. It is a short and sweet book!

These illustrations are liquitex acrylics on illustration board, the colors are bright and the author uses bold lines and a layering technique which looks like chalk drawing. There are lots of baby chicks and different colored chickens in this book. Kids can do lots of counting, there are lots of

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thing to count but it isn't overwhelming and the pages are very simple.

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Simple classic nursery rhyme "one, two--buckle my shoe" told with saturated colors and a big fat hen. Great counting book that respects children's intelligence--for example, the one, two page has two eggs and one dragonfly, but doesn't label them "one dragonfly" or "two eggs". At the end, there is

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a lot of counting to do as well. Good conversation starter about different animals and vocabulary around them (and the word buckle).

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"Big Fat Hen" incorporates sequence counting with literature. A common trait of rhyming and beginner level text that make a good book for Kindergarden and 1st grade. Using the old folk song (one two buckle my...)gives young readers a famliar vibe. This also helps them when they are reading

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independantly. It also gives an insight of a hen and her chicks asnd other animals that children are familar with.

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The story is a simple elaboration on the song that inspired the book, with an extra large format and bright illustrations that add much to the story. Each large two-page spread presents a colorful illustration, with the text being a small portion of the song, Big Fat Hen. The hens are presented in

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saturated colors of green and blue and purple, with appealingly patterned feathers and playful personalities. As they run off after butterflies or worms, their eggs hatch and divulge cute chicks that explore their world. At the end of the story, the author adds a few more lines, grouping all the hens together and counting them, and then displaying a huge spread of eggs, and counting them as they hatch.

The song is popular with children, and picture books based on songs can be fun diversions. Such a book needs to add an extra element to the song to be successful, though. In this case, the extra element is the attractive package. The pictures are a wonderful addition. The hens are each unique personalities, and the chicks are adorable. The book only lightly touches on counting, but any practice in that area is both beneficial and enjoyable for children. This is still a simple book, but the clever illustrations draw children in, and the story presents a fun read aloud experience.

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The book is a nice picture, The author is helping the children learn how to count from this book. The book is also tells the children where the chicks come from.
Age group 1-3
Tacoma public library

I love the illustrations in this book. Keith Baker puts an amazing visual to a classic rhyme. The thing that made this book fun for me was that I have said this rhyme with children for many years and always wondered where in the heck the "big fat hen" came from! The pictures tie the big fat hen

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right into the rhyme. Love the little chicks, all the hens friends and counting all those eggs!

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