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JDaniel can count to ten on his fingers and loves to count objects. I thought we would look for a book on counting to feature this week.

The book I found at the library is called the The Missing Chick by Valieri Gorbachev. It is a fun story about a wayward chick and the lengths his mom will go to when she thinks he is lost.

At first Mother Hen didn’t know the little chick was lost. She was busy hanging laundry and watching her other six chicks to notice.

When Mrs. Duck stops by to chat, she points out that there are only six chicks.

Mother Hen searches in her house without finding him.

She get neighbors, the police, the firefighters, a helicopter, and no one can find the chick.

Finally Mrs. Duck notices something moving in the laundry basket. Can you guess who it was? Yes it was the little chick. He had fallen asleep.

Mother Hen is so happy to have her little one back.

The little chick promises he won’t get lost again, but before the story can end he is sleep on the clothes line and his mother is heading back into the house with his siblings.

While the one little chick stays hidden until the end of the book, JDaniel and I had fun counting the six little chicks that appeared on most of the pages for and over again.

 What did we do?

Counting Marbles

During the speed dating session at the Type A Parent Conference, I met the wonderful people from Marble Jar. They have created an application for iPads and iPhones that allows you to designate a jar for a certain area of growth or goal and decide how many marbles can be added to the jar when a behavior is exhibited that a part of that goal or area of growth.

I have heard to real jars with real marbles for goal setting. The beauty of this program is that it makes the jar mobile. You don’t have to wait to get home to add a marble to the jar.

JDaniel and I set up a jar for successful potty training events and have been adding marbles to the jar when he has done them.

He really enjoys just adding marbles to the jar and counting them. So, we do. We created a few jars just to add marbles to and count.

Counting Ducks

We don’t have any chicken to count, but we do have ducks. I took out the Valentine’s Day ducks to count on the measuring tape. We put one duck on each number starting with one and then counted how many ducks we had.

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