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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Holiday Shirts
Produce items of clothing to wear on a holiday to a particular location by selecting and using shapes to represent different places
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Robot Movements
Explain and model how to control the direction and position of a robot when moving about the classroom to perform different functions
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Jack and the Beanstalk
Explore, role-play and change the sequence of narrative events that occur in a traditional story and select and match cvc words with the same final phoneme sounds
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Summer Picnic
Select, identify and prepare different types of foods for a picnic including sandwiches and fruit juice drinks by compiling shopping lists for a class outing