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Counting Games for Preschool and Kindergarten
First counting starts with noticing each object once. These number games connect a spoken count, a group of pictures and a written numeral. A grown-up can point, count and compare alongside a child.
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Count objects one at a time
Touch or point to each pictured object as you count. Stop at the last object and say how many there are altogether. Recount a small group instead of guessing from its size.
Fruit basket
Count the fruit and match each group with a number.
Match a number with what it represents
Choose the early level in Happy numbers to count small groups of stars. Make a matching group with blocks or fingers and compare it with the screen.
Happy numbers
Count, add, subtract and explore numbers at your level.
Take a next step with tens and ones
When children are ready for larger numbers, group ten objects together and look at what is left. The tens-and-ones workshop is a later activity, rather than a starting counting task.
Tens and ones workshop
Build a number from groups of ten and individual ones.