🔢 A Spoon for Every Cup
Una cuchara para cada vaso
🔢 Math & Numbers
K.CC.5K.CC.4WL.K.1
Objective: Child practices one-to-one correspondence by matching one item to each of another.
🧺 Materials
- plastic cups
- spoons
- stuffed animals
📋 Instructions (parent)
- Set up a pretend tea party with stuffed animal guests in a row.
- Have your child give exactly one cup to each guest, counting as they go in Spanish.
- Now give exactly one spoon to each cup, matching them one to one.
- Ask if every guest has what they need and check for leftovers.
- Add or remove a guest and fix the matching together.
➕ Extension ideas
- Add a plate and a napkin for each guest, matching one to one.
- Have one guest leave and figure out how many cups are now extra.
🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish
Español
¡Vamos a hacer una fiesta de té! Cada animalito necesita un vaso. Dale un vaso a cada uno, solo uno. ¿Tiene cada animalito su propio vaso?
💬 Conversation prompts
- ¿Tiene cada animalito un vaso?
- ¿Cuántas cucharas necesitamos?
- ¿Sobra algún vaso?
- ¿Cuántos invitados hay en la fiesta?
🔑 Vocabulary
- vaso — cup
- cuchara — spoon
- cada — each
- invitado — guest
- fiesta — party
- sobrar — to be left over
Other ways to do it
⚡ 5-minute version
Give one spoon to each of three cups and check the match.
🚗 Car version
Pretend each seat needs one snack and count them one to one.
😴 No-energy version
Hand one toy to each pillow guest while sitting together.
🎯 California standards covered
| K.CC.5 | Counting to Answer How Many “I can count a group of things to find out how many there are.” |
| K.CC.4 | Counting Tells How Many “I can count objects one at a time and know the last number tells how many.” |
| WL.K.1 | Exploring Spanish “I can say hello, count, and name colors in Spanish.” |