Teach preschooler count to 100?

[Niniedney]

I need help teaching my 3 year old to count to 100. She is understanding how to count to 100 very well, but I was wondering if you all had any ideas for games or activities to do with her. I have 1-100 on the wall in the toy room, and taped around the coffee table. She counts to about 35 then gets bored. She has trouble going from 29-30, or 39-40, or 49-50 and so on. We play teacher and I point to the numbers and count til she wants to stop. I also made these cards with #s 0-9 on them and we arrange them to make different numbers. Any help or advice is appreciated. Thanks! Oh and also how to introduce mulitplication? She does addition and subraction 1-10 with numerals and 1-20 when we do visual math.

[annisis]

As far as counting goes, I wouldn't focus on counting from 1 all the way to 100 just yet. That's a long way to go for some adults! :P I think counting in increments of 10 or more is great. Maybe next time, you can start counting at 35 and go on until right before she is bored.

The Doman method preaches that you should stop before your child wants to stop. Always leave them wanting more.

You could also introduce skip counting by tens, fives, threes, etc.

With my son, I like to play the what comes next game. I just call a number out loud and then look at him and ask him "What comes next?" And he'll answer me... or he won't.

We also randomly count everything... Signs, trees, pieces of fuzz that he manages to find.... random.


You could also start playing games similar to the what comes next game using the numbers that you have put up. Ask her to find a number on your charts. Then you can ask her about the number that comes after and before. Then you can challenge her to count to that number. Make a BIG deal about it. She might want to meet your challenge and surpass it!


By using games to enhance her understanding of the order of the numers, you would practically be teaching her to count to 100.

[Niniedney]

Thank you very much for your input! I try to stop before she wants to but I also to make the most out of our lessons. Lol. I do think she is understanding how to get up to 100. I like the idea of starting from 35. I will just continue with our games and try not to bore her with counting all the way to 100. Thanks again...

[DadDude]

Repeatedly watching this video helped mine learn how:

http://www.watchknow.org/Video.aspx?VideoID=16552&CategoryID=384

[kizudo]

Yay Number 59!  Thanks to Mr Sanger for including the friendly province   Thanks for linking us to it, Dad Dude!

[Twinergy]

My kids are crazy about the Winnie the Pooh stories and like to reenact the stories with little pocket size characters I got off ebay (I have also seen similar ones at the Dysney store.)  In the story Roo's Big Adventure, they play hide and seek and count to 100.  Every time we "Play Roo in the hollow log", as my kids call it, they insist I count all the way to 100.  If I don't they remind me that I must finish.    My kids just turned 3 and don't yet get hide and seek, but I'm sure it will provide lots of counting practice when they get there. 

[waterdreamer]

Heidisongs has a cd and DVD called Musical Math. One if the songs is "What comes next"
It goes:
What comes next? What comes next? Just do your best, just do your best!
It's 29 and 30, 39 and 40, 49 and 50 is what comes next. Just do your best
It's 59 and 60, 69 and 70 etc....
Might help your little one get over the hump. I'm doing a giveaway for this set on my blog. Check it out.

[Tanikit]

I am also trying to teach my 3 year old to count to 100 - I can actually get teh whole way counting to her if she is swinging on her swing while I count, but most often I will just start at a higher number and count from there (that's how she learnt 11-20) I have also introduced skip counting and counting in tens which also helps.

I am still doing addition and subtraction with my daughter, but every now and then when playing with toys and dividing them between her toys we do land up starting on simple multiplication and division. "Look we have 10 sweets and we must give 5 toys all the same amount - lets try and do that - how many do they each get?" Or in reverse - look all the toys have 2 sweets each, how many do they have altogether? You need skip counting to do this though else they will just count from one so I'd probably start skip counting before trying to do this although the concept is the same and you can always show them later how to do it with skip counting.

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