This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and describe the properties of different 2D shapes when creating food snacks and decorations to celebrate Easter. The class can explain what make a shape special and unique from some other shapes.

Easter Flowers

Practise making models of different flower shapes to produce decorations for Easter by melting and shaping chocolate to create a range of food snacks

Bunny Biscuits

Explore and model how to bake a selection of biscuits using different 2D shapes that can be used to represent Easter themes and celebrations

Easter Cakes

Practise using coloured marzipan to create a range of different symbols and shapes that can be used to decorate cup cakes to serve at a family party for Easter

  • Seaside Subtraction

    Seaside Subtraction

    Calculate and record the difference between pairs of numbers to ten by counting back to show numbers of items sold in a shop at the seaside

  • Animal Alphabet

    Animal Alphabet

    Practise finding information in non-fiction books about some of the different animals that live around the world

  • Spring Farming

    Spring Farming

    Identify and describe some of the changes to farm animals that occur during the spring and jobs performed by the farmer during this season of the year

  • Shape Numbers

    Shape Numbers

    Identify and count the numbers of different geometric shapes that can be seen in special places, themes and illustrations