the best part is passing out the cards to the class as they sit on the rug and having them come up and re-organize the cards back in their proper place as a whole group activity.
you can even pass out the cards before reading the story one day this week. then as you approach the page in the story that applies to a row, the kids that have those cards come up and build the pocket chart row by row. by the time you get to the page for the number seven there are seven rows built. by the time you finish the story, the kids have built the entire 