Connecting You and the Classroom!!!!! Theme 5: Let's Count Week 2: Ten Little Puppies, A Song from the Oral Hispanic Tradition. Speak and Listen: Say or read a familiar counting rhyme together, such as, "One, two, buckle my shoe." Repeat it with pauses, and ask your child to fill in rhyming or number words. Like this story???? Then read Splash by Ann Jonas and A Tree for Me by Nancy Van Laan. Theme5: Let's Count Week 3: Feast for 10 and Ten Little Puppies Talk About It: Ask your child to tell you something he or she liked about each of the two Big Books. Ask which book he or she liked best and why. Like this story???? Then read Over in the Meadow by John Langstaff and Five Little Ducks by Pamela Paparone