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
(D) One Less
Identify and record counted sets of objects that are one less than different numbers to ten on the theme of farms and farming
(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
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Owl and the Pussycat
Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds
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Story Sentences
Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat
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Story Map
Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative
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Story Journeys
Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale