Lesson Four – Houses

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and count one more for numbers to ten using different parts that can be seen on some of the houses that are close to the school’s location.
The class can practise using concrete equipment to model the matching sums that are one more than different numbers to ten.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and count one more for numbers to ten using different parts that can be seen on some of the houses that are close to the school’s location
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to build different towers of cubes to show numbers that are one more than numbers to ten and a template to select and produce matching sets of objects to ten that could be found on a house.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count one more for numbers to ten using different parts that can be found on a house.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to 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. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.
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