Bethany Lake is a former classroom teacher turned homeschool mom who specializes in math education. On her website, MathGeekMama.com, she shares easy, engaging, and meaningful ways to instill a love and excitement for math in every child.
"""Every child learning to count needs to read this lovely book! Bethany's book is cleverly written. I love how she weaves in teaching numbers and counting skills with a cute story about animals. I can't wait to share this book with parents and early childhood educators!"" --Angela Thayer, founder of TeachingMama.org ""Bethany Lake knows how to make math fun and engaging! Each beautifully illustrated page is packed with various strategies of introducing number concepts and laying the foundation of number sense by way of the written number, visualizing, seeing numbers in patterns, and different counting opportunities. This book has found its place in this grandmother's playroom bookshelves!"" --Paula S. Maupin, retired classroom teacher and administrator, Washington County, Tennessee, schools and grandmother of three ""Bethany Lake's 1, 2, 3, Animals! is a fun and beautifully illustrated counting book that offers differentiated learners access to counting to ten and back down. This is a counting book for every beginning math learner--one that every teacher should have on hand!"" --Lee Ann Jenkins, Special Education Interventionist"