Unit K – Christmas Shopping
This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to solve a range of money problems about different things that families might need to buy to celebrate Christmas by adding money amounts within twenty. The class can use concrete objects and diagrams to count on when adding numbers.
Solve a range of money problems about different things that families might need to buy to celebrate Christmas by adding money amounts within twenty
Lesson One : Christmas Trees
Select a range of different ornaments to buy that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree and calculate their matching money totals
Lesson Two : Christmas Dinner
Select and calculate the cost of buying a range of different items of food for a family Christmas dinner
Lesson Three : Christmas Gifts
Calculate and record the cost of buying pairs of Christmas gifts for members of a family using money amounts to ten pence
Lesson Four : Christmas Cards
Model how to add pairs of single digit numbers to calculate the cost of buying cards for friends and family to celebrate Christmas
Lesson Five : Christmas Lists
Identify and record how to use counting on to add pairs of money amounts to ten pence to record the presents that have been placed in a stocking
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School Friends
Investigate, describe and model some of the special ways of providing practical, spiritual and emotional support to other pupils in the school
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School Pictograms
Explore how to count and record the numbers of different pieces of school equipment that can be found in trays stored around the classroom
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Listening Skills
Develop and refine listening skills when practising how to follow commands and instructions when playing games and role-playing actions
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Halving Things
Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school