One More Month for the Latest Pete the Cat Book (so how about a FREEBIE?)

Everyone loves the adorable blue kitty, Pete the Cat.  Who couldn't...he is so carefree and so cool and so groovy, too!  When I know my students love something (in this case Pete), I take full on advantage of it.  Since we are in the throws of adding and subtracting, poor Pete is going to get used to the bone to help teach and practice adding and subtracting fluently within 5. 

(Ding, ding, ding!  You are correct....that is a Kindergarten Common Core Standard!)

If you are from a typical kindergarten classroom, you have probably always introduced adding and subtracting in previous years, but never expected fluency with math facts...that is, until now!  I am going to use Pete losing his buttons for subtraction and Pete finding his buttons for addition.  Groovy, huh? The only thing I think that Pete might find a bit disturbing about this whole thing is that I am going to have to add a button to his jacket so we are in the proper parameters of 0-5 (there are only 4 buttons on his jacket in the actual book).  Do you think Pete will care??? Goodness, no...he'll just keep walking along, singing his song, I am sure.  Come on over to grab my FREE 10, 5 and double 10 frames to use with all of those extra buttons you have kicking around your classroom.  Get students excited about the release of this new book (less than a month, but who's counting?) by sharing these fancy frames with them!