counting and cardinality preschool

Counting to 5

Build strong early number skills! 🔢✨ Children will count forward and backward from any number up to 5 and confidently count objects using one-to-one correspondence. Perfect for developing accuracy, number fluency, and real understanding — not just rote counting! 🧠👆 Fun, simple, and effective for early learners! 🎉

Target Grade:

Lesson Overview

By the end of this unit, students will be able to:

  1. count forward and backward from any number up to 5;
  2. count a set of objects and determine the quantity using one-to-one correspondence.

Curriculum Alignment: Year 1 Number: Number and Place Value

  • Count to and across 100, forwards and backwards, beginning with zero or 1, or from any given number.
  • Identify and represent numbers using objects and pictorial representations including the number line, and use the language of: equal to, more than, less than (fewer), most, least.
Last updated on: February 20, 2026

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