Numbers of Animals:

1. Ask students to name the animals depicted in the scene.
2. Ask if students can find animals that they might have read about in another book. The family of ducks in the illustration is reminiscent of the ducks in Make Way for Ducklings. Students may make a text-to-text connection.
   
   Standards: NL-ENG.K-12.3 Evaluation Strategies
3. There are four different kinds of animals in this scene—dogs, pigeons, ducks, and a rabbit. Ask students to locate, count, and record the number of each type of animal.
4. Create a bar graph to visually represent the data.
   
   Standards: NM-NUM.PK-2.1 Understand Numbers, Ways of Representing Numbers, Relationships among Numbers, and Number Systems; NM-DATA.PK-2.1 Formulate Questions That Can Be Addressed with Data and Collect, Organize, and Display Relevant Data to Answer; NM-COMM.PK-12.1 Organize and Consolidate Their Mathematical Thinking Through Communication