My two year old, Little Angel, can count to ten, well, with
a little help! She skips number one probably because we are always starting her
off by saying, “How many? Lets count… one..” So in our house, its two, two,
three, two, sic, seve, eight, nigh, ten. One of our favourite apps at the
Little Monkey Apps house is Counting Bear by GrassHopper Apps What a great way to get young
children to count objects with one to one correspondence!
There are so many great early learning and numeracy products
out there and for simple addition and subtraction but not too much for the in-between
stages. After showing off my Little Angel’s talents to a colleague she
expressed her experience that her students hadn’t had enough exposed to ten
frames. They also needed exposure to subitising, they didn’t know their friends
of ten (2+8, 3+7, 4+6 1+9).



Back to my original story though, we have stopped prompting
Little Angel by saying “One” now. She is like many two years olds when it comes
to learning new things and has just started to say “No Mama…I do!” I’m sure
what she is trying to say is “Don’t get me started, I can figure this out for
myself!” So instead we ask “How many are there? What number do we start with?”
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