What Your Child Should Know By the End of Kindergarten
Every Skill Your Kindergartner Needs to Know by the End of the Year, Direct from Teachers
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Counting is part memorizing a sequence, part understanding a concept. Kindergartners need to grasp the idea that we count a set one by one, and that the last number counted is the total number of objects. This skill, called one-to-one correspondence, can be practiced through counting everyday objects. Parents and caregivers can count together with children and then follow up by asking them how many objects there are in all.