🔢 Treasure Counting to 20
Contar el tesoro hasta veinte
🔢 Math & Numbers
K.CC.4K.CC.5WL.K.1
Objective: Child counts a collection of small objects accurately up to 20.
🧺 Materials
- buttons or coins
- small bowl
- spoon
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Put a handful of buttons or coins in a bowl and pretend it is pirate treasure.
- Have your child scoop out some treasure with a spoon and line the pieces up in a row.
- Point to each piece and count it out loud together in Spanish, touching one at a time.
- Scoop a new amount and count again, slowly working up toward 20.
- Cheer for the biggest pile and count it one last time.
➕ Extension ideas
- Hide the treasure around the room and count each piece as you find it.
- Sort coins by size, then count each group.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Mira, encontramos un tesoro! Vamos a contar las monedas, una por una. Toca cada una mientras dices el número: uno, dos, tres. ¿Cuántas monedas de oro tienes?
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cuántas monedas hay en tu tesoro?
- ¿Puedes contar hasta veinte conmigo?
- ¿Cuál pila es más grande?
- ¿Qué número viene después de diez?
🔑 Vocabulary
- tesoro — treasure
- moneda — coin
- contar — to count
- diez — ten
- veinte — twenty
- pila — pile
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Count just one quick scoop of treasure together, up to ten.
🚗 Car version
Count pretend treasure coins on your fingers while driving.
😴 No-energy version
Snuggle and count buttons one by one from a single bowl.
🎯 California standards covered
| K.CC.4 | Counting Tells How Many “I can count objects one at a time and know the last number tells how many.” |
| K.CC.5 | Counting to Answer How Many “I can count a group of things to find out how many there are.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |