Saturday, October 1, 2011

1 2 3

Is it really as easy as ABC?
Well it can be even easier because once you learn to count and then identify each number 1-10 you can easily learn what they represent.
After you say your numbers 1-10, count days on the calendar for a couple months, count the ducks on the lake for the kids they will get the audio and visual.
The conceptual can be learned from counting objects any objects. Sometime counters are nice, but toys, apples, fingers! Then to reinforce it have your child count outside of school time, remember to use teachable moments. How many cereal boxes are in the shopping cart? Can you count out 3 green peppers for our recipe? Count how many buttons are on your shirt.
After a relatively short period of time will they not only be able to quickly determine the quantity of an item, but can abstractly understand the number 5 when you speak of 5 cars that are not visible to the eye.
Good luck on the numbers lessons 1 2 3 weeeee!

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