Lesson
Learn to count by tens and count actual objects.
Recommended Ages
Pre-schoolers and kindergarteners
Vocabulary
Cardinality: (which is a kindergarten-level skill) where the child can not only count from one to ten, but they can also find the number of objects in a set
At our final session of Lunchtime Literacy at Fishtown Library, we taught a lesson on counting by tens. Learning to count to ten, not just by rote counting, but also by finding the number of objects in a set, is a kindergarten-level skill known as cardinality. Often, preschoolers can easily recite the numbers from one to ten, but are unable to count actual objects.