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On a different day, we might cook fruit salad. Each kid can choose 10 pieces of fruit to add (e.g. 3 blueberries, 4 grapes, and 3 cutie orange sections), and then draw a picture recipe to show what they cooked.[/quote]

Great.  Good for you and your kids.  So, how long did it take you to teach the kids to count to ten when they came in not being able to count at all? 
  
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Not surprisingly it varied from kid to kid.  I'm a special ed teacher, so some of my kids spent the entire year working on counting to 10.  Generally, most of the class (thinking of an inclusion setting where the majority of kids don't have disabilities) had basic control of counting to 10 by around November, with some stragglers still needing work throughout the year.  The activities I described would likely come in the second half of the year, and would be appropriate, with scaffolded support, for kids who aren't solid on counting.  There are lots of places where counting, making sets, matching sets to numbers, and using 1:1 correspondence is embedded in them.  Beginning counters need lots of practice counting, including lots of practice counting that's embedded in other activities like the ones I described.

You still haven't answered my question about what the standards you used when you taught.  Have you taught K using the CCSS?  Have you taught using other standards?  Which ones?[/quote]

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