Meagan,
I understand what you are talking about. My son first had problems too. I put the lessons aside and used the Right Start way of math in our everyday life. Especially with item less than 5. So we were setting the table and I would ask him how many forks I had. He would always start to count and I would have to remind him, "without counting" then he could almost always tell me. I found it was not so much that he was not getting it. It was just he thought counting was what I wanted him to do and I had to reprogram him to just look and see how many there were. Once we got passed that he had no problem moving on with the lessons. Since he is PreK, like your daughter, we have been moving very slowly.

HTH,
Cheri in TN