🔢 How Many Snacks?
¿Cuántos bocados hay?
🔢 Math & Numbers
K.CC.4K.CC.5WL.K.1
Objective: Child understands that the last number counted tells how many are in the group.
🧺 Materials
- crackers or cereal pieces
- small plate
- napkin
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Place a small group of crackers on a plate, between 5 and 15.
- Have your child count the crackers out loud, touching each one in Spanish.
- When they finish, ask how many there are in total to check that the last number means the whole group.
- Eat one cracker, then count again to see the new total.
- Repeat until the snack is gone, celebrating each count.
➕ Extension ideas
- Add a few crackers and count the bigger group.
- Share crackers with a sibling and count each person's pile.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
Vamos a contar tus galletas antes de comerlas. Toca cada galleta y cuenta: uno, dos, tres. La última vez que dices un número, ¡ese es el total! ¿Cuántas galletas tienes en total?
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Cuántas galletas hay en el plato?
- Si comes una, ¿cuántas quedan?
- ¿Cuál fue el último número que dijiste?
- ¿Tenemos más o menos galletas ahora?
🔑 Vocabulary
- galleta — cracker
- plato — plate
- total — total
- comer — to eat
- quedar — to remain
- último — last
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Count one small plate of snacks once and ask how many in total.
🚗 Car version
Count pretend snacks on fingers and ask how many there are.
😴 No-energy version
Count a small handful of cereal while resting at the table.
🎯 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.” |