Foundation Stage – Page 3

Christmas Shapes

Practise combining different shapes and materials to make a range of decorations to display in a family home at Christmas

Create and decorate hanging stockings to hold Christmas presents using different types of shapes, colours and patterns

Select and use a range of 3D shapes and different materials to design and make a Christmas decorative character of a snowman

Select and combine a range of different 2D shapes and festive materials to make a table decoration showing a Christmas tree

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

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

Model how to add pairs of single digit numbers to calculate the cost of buying cards for friends and family to celebrate Christmas

Calculate and record the cost of buying pairs of Christmas gifts for members of a family using money amounts to ten pence

Select and calculate the cost of buying a range of different items of food for a family Christmas dinner

Select a range of different ornaments to buy that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree and calculate their matching money totals