Numeracy Term One Planning

Discover some schemes of work, lesson plans, classroom worksheets and interactive activities to develop skills in numeracy for Reception aged children in the Foundation Stage covering counting and numbers to ten, finding one more and one less, identifying shapes, using non-standard measurements, working with money and presenting data using pictograms

(A) Counting

Count, record and compare sets of different objects to ten and identify the matching numbers using numerals

(B) Numbers

Practise counting and labelling sets of different objects by writing and matching the numerals for each of the numbers to five

(C) One More

Count and record numbers of different objects that are one more than numbers to ten by using objects around the school and in the local area

(E) Shapes

Identify, describe and compare different 2D shapes by their individual shape properties including numbers of sides and corners

(F) Measurement

Practise and model different ways of measuring and comparing the length, height, volume, capacity and mass of different objects by using counting skills

(K) Christmas Shopping

Solve a range of money problems about different things that families might need to buy to celebrate Christmas by adding money amounts within twenty

  • Nursery Rhymes

    Nursery Rhymes

    Investigate the use of patterned language and rhyming in traditional nursery rhymes and practise segmenting words into individual phonemes by reading and adapting poetry

  • Story Telling

    Story Telling

    Practise using drama and role-play to retell and illustrate some of the different events that occur in a story based on a traditional nursery rhyme poem

  • Sing a Song of Sixpence

    Sing a Song of Sixpence

    Investigate and change some of the different word rhymes and special vocabulary words that feature in a traditional nursery rhyme with a narrative story

  • Five Little Ducks

    Five Little Ducks

    Identify, sequence and order each of the different events that occur in a traditional nursery rhyme and segment and blend cvc words used in the narrative