Creative Child November 2020 | Page 16

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Practice Counting and Sorting Games
Your child will need a basic understanding of counting and sorting to understand how voting works . Start by having your child match concrete objects first , like buttons or blocks of the same color . When that has been mastered , you can move on to sorting shapes then to matching puzzle pieces . Explain how , during an election , everyone gets one vote , and those votes are all sorted and counted at the end to determine the winner . Then try the following activities :
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