Count the owls

On each of the 5 trays, the owl babies gather around their mother. The child will place the babies by using the representation of the number requested, indicated by the stars on their mother's belly, which are also in equal number in the sky around them. 

The adult can guide the child in finding counting strategies: count the stars and then count the babies, show each star and place a baby, count with the fingers, and of course place the babies in the same arrangement as the stars to visually check if it is the same. 

Objectives :

Construct the notion of quantity by understanding that any number is obtained by adding 1 to the previous number.

Know how to associate the representation of the fingers of the hand and the numbers with the quantities.

Skills developed :

Know how to make a collection from 1 to 5 by counting.

Use different representations of quantities.

Contents of the box :

5 magnetic trays

16 baby magnetic owls

10 quantity magnets: numbers from 1 to 5 and hands from 1 to 5 fingers

a storage box

a user guide