Even and Odd and Crackers

Winter break is a wonderful time for I get to spend lots of time with family. One day at lunch my almost five year old granddaughter, Rachel, was staring intently at her cracker. Then she announced that it had an odd number of holes. "There are seven holes, and seven's an odd number." How do you know, she was asked. Well she had partnered up the holes and there was one left over. She said her teacher had taught her that. So hooray for Rachel's teacher who knew preschoolers are ready to learn about numbers and hooray for Rachel for taking the odd/even lesson and testing it out in real life. She continued her explorations of odd and even over our time together.