Are there enough?

💡 How it plays and why it helps

Is there a chair for everyone at the party? Children ask that long before they can count to ten, and the Pre-K game Are there enough? builds on it. Each round shows five pictures: chairs and children, presents and children, an apple and two caterpillars. The question is read aloud, and your child taps Yes or No. Every answer is checked and explained, for example: two chairs and three children, not enough.

The skill underneath is one-to-one correspondence, pairing each thing with exactly one partner. It comes before counting and gives counting its meaning. The hint even gives the method: match with your finger, one by one, and see if someone is left with nothing. Some cards have a present to spare, and that still means Yes.

The likely mistake is answering Yes as soon as there are some chairs, without checking that every child gets one. Point to a child and ask, "Which chair is yours?" Then work along the row. The bank has seven Yes and seven No. Guessing does not last. Praise the matching: "You gave every child a chair, one by one."