🔢 Count Everything Blue

Cuenta Todo lo Azul

🔢 Math & Numbers Emergency K.CC.4K.CC.5
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Objective: Count objects of one color up to ten with one-to-one correspondence.

⏱️ ~7 min 🧺 0 min setup · movement

🧺 Materials

None needed — just the two of you.

📋 Instructions (parent)

  1. Pick a color, like blue, and hunt for blue things around you.
  2. Touch each blue thing and count out loud in Spanish.
  3. See how high you can count before you run out.

➕ Extension ideas

  • Count a second color and see which has more.
  • Add the blue things and the red things together.

🗣️ Parent script — say it in Spanish

Español
Vamos a contar todo lo que es azul. Toca cada cosa azul y cuenta conmigo: uno, dos, tres.

💬 Conversation prompts

  • ¿Cuántas cosas azules encontraste?
  • ¿Qué cosa azul es la más grande?
  • ¿Hay más cosas azules o rojas?

🔑 Vocabulary

  • contar — to count
  • azul — blue
  • uno — one
  • muchos — many
  • número — number

Other ways to do it

⚡ 5-minute version

Count blue things in just one room.

🚗 Car version

Count blue cars or blue signs you pass.

😴 No-energy version

Count the blue things you can see without moving.

🎯 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.”
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