How Many Blue Birds Flew Away?

A couple of weeks ago I went to the library and checked out some titles for the boys to do some summer reading. Yesterday my 6-year-old finally read How many blue birds flew away? by Paul Giganti, Jr. It is a book about counting and comparing quantities less than 20. The story provided opportunities to count my two's (as in the case of counting mittens) as well as reinforcing one-to-one correspondence. When the objects are scattered throughout the page, my son had trouble keeping track of items that were counted and those that were uncounted. There were also times when I had to remind him to watch out for "hidden" objects. After successfully counting items on each page, he had to compare the difference between the two quantities. For him this part was surprisingly easier than counting correctly!