Christmas Counting And Matching (with modifications)

For the past few days, we've been taking a look at some of the great Christmas worksheets available at 1+1+1=1 and I've been suggesting some modifications for common tricky spots that I have come across in my Special Education Teacher years. The links the other posts in this series are down at the bottom of this article. Today, we're going to take a look at the "Christmas Counting" page. The child is asked to trace the number on the left side of the page and, then, draw a line to the corresponding group on the right side of the page. What a great activity! One-to-one correspondence is the building block to all of your math skills for the rest of your life - understanding that one object is, in fact, "1," as opposed to continuing on the assumption that, "1, 2, 3, 4..." is just an arbitrary set of words that people like to recipe. Don't laugh! It's true. That's kind of how we learn all language. It's arbitrary and then we slowly begin to assign meaning. One-to-one correspondence is the assigning of that meaning. Anyway, if you don't have the worksheet available just yet, go head and get it while the gettin's good, then come back and join me here:

Nativity Preschool Pack

MODIFICATIONS: A really basic way to help your little one start to develop that concept of one-to-one correspondence is to have her touch each of the pictures while she is counting them. So, point to the number on the left side of the page together (use hand over hand, if you'd like) and say the name of the number. Then, move to the right hand column and begin to count the number of pictures in each group, touching each picture as you say the number together. Move down the column until you find the match. If touching each picture is not your kiddo's thing, you can give circling each picture as you count them a try, too. If you're looking for a little more to help associate those numbers on the left with actual counting numbers, you can go ahead and draw some dots (the amount that corresponds to each number) next to each number prior to giving your child the activity. In that way, she can count the dots to identify the written number in the first place, which may give her something more concrete to be matching during the second part of the activity.

An easier way to cut here: Help With Scissors!
Help with gluing here: Stop The Glue Mess!

Other Modifications In The Nativity Pack:
        Christmas Tracing Activity
            Christmas Cutting, Sorting, And Gluing
            Christmas Beginning Letter Sounds