1, 2, 3! Kindergarten, here we come!

Pre-K students should master the following skills to have a strong mathematical foundation for kindergarten:

• Counting with 1 to 1 correspondence
• Counting orally from 1 to 20
• Identifying numbers 1 to 10, in and out of order
• Representing a number of objects with a number
• Recognizing and identifying shapes
• Sorting based on various attributes, such as shape, color and size
• Comparing sizes and amounts using vocabulary words such as: smaller, larger, bigger, greater than, less than, few, shorter, longer, taller, shorter, equal
• Extending simple patterns
• Creating simple patterns
• Understanding addition as adding to using story problems
• Understanding subtraction as taking from using story problems