Count the Bears

As part of getting our children ready for kindergarten we have  started our first round of tests. Simple questions like what color is this, what letter is this, what number is this, etc.

Do you remember playing with plastic counters as a child? Those colorful plastic figurines that helped you add 1 + 1

We have some of those and as part of the test we asked our children to count how many bears we had

"Count the Bears
"
"1,2,3,4,5,6"
Looking down  and seeing 7 Bears was not promising
Count the Bears again please
"1,2,3,4,5,6" again skipping over the same bear
Honey, count the Bears, I said pointing to each one
As I moved my finger to each bear she counted
1,2,3,4,pause "That one is a cat!" 5,6

Next time I will be sure to use all the same Bears so they won't be mistaken for cats