Preschool Benchmarks
Count with understanding and recognize “how many” in small sets up to 5.
Use subitizing (the rapid and accurate judgment of how many items there are without counting) to identify the number of objects in sets of 4 or less.
Understand and appropriately use informal or everyday terms that mean zero, such as “none” or “nothing”.
Connect numbers to quantities they represent using physical models and informal representations.
Differentiate numerals from letters and recognize some single-digit written numerals.
Verbally recite numbers from 1 to 10.
Be able to say the number after another in the series up to 9 when given a “running start,” as in “What comes after one, two, three, four…?”