Children love spending quality time with mom and dad as much as parents love seeing them thrive and excel! Every time parents sit down to read with their child, a whole new world of possible life lessons emerges. Teachers call those teachable moments and capitalize on them with ease. Deb realized that what comes naturally to a professional educator, may not be second nature to a new mom or dad. That's why she created the Critter Countdown Companion. She wanted to provide a roadmap for the parents who were interested in extending the mathematical journey a little further.

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Critter Countdown Companion extends the learning that first began while reading the wildly popular picture book Critter Countdown by providing parents with over 100 scripted activities to fuel dialogue and fuel engagement between parent and child. Plus, Critter Countdown Companion gives young children permission to write in the book, so they are more able to keep their place and track their progress as they count-up the animals on each page.

In addition to counting forward and backwards, The Critter Countdown Companion also facilitates language development, so that your little one can easily articulate his or her learning with confidence at home and in the classroom. Some examples of skills your child will be practicing as they work alongside you include rhyming words, adjectives, naming letters, sound recognition, animal names and more. After completing the activities on each page, children are encouraged to color the adorable illustrations in the way and style that they find most appealing.

As an extra bonus for older children, Deb has included number tracing pages, so that kindergarteners can exercise their fine motor skills, practice number formation on large lines, and learn to recognize the numbers in both word and numerical form.

If you’re a parent who wants to help your toddler, preschooler, or kindergartner with basic counting, penmanship, and oral language development, then you’ll want to order a copy of this thoughtfully composed activity, coloring, and number tracing book today!

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