Counting is more than 1,2,3!

This is a wonderful new game that occurs each day....I told the children that the greatest surprise a teacher can have is to walk in to a room of ready and happy children....SURPRISE! they've been practicing :o)

counting with a ten frame

organizing

roll and record.....

sharing a counting book with a captive audience

sharing

sharing with a sibling!

old friends

this child was interested in the cover of this book!

number bingo

helping your neighbor

This week we added to our knowledge of numbers by playing many organizing games. We chose cards and filled a ten frame, colored in number bows as we counted the dots on dice, and organized groups of numbers. We've been playing number bingo 1-20, and it's interesting to hear less and less..."what does that look like?" as the children familiarize themselves with numbers in the teens. We shared our counting books with the prek afternoon class, and they were a receptive audience as each child counted 0 through 12 and showed each page. We have also begun "taking inventories" and discussing counting in terms of order and keeping track.

Until Next Time,
Michele