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Crown Jewels
This numeracy topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to investigate how to identify, count and describe some of the different shapes that have been added as jewels to a royal crown worn by a king or queen.
The class can explain how they were able to identify the name of a shape by their matching properties including the number of sides and corners when counting each set of shapes.
Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to investigate how to identify, count and describe some of the different shapes that have been added as jewels to a royal crown worn by a king or queen
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe different 2D shapes by their individual properties and worksheets to count and describe some of the different geometric shapes that have been added to a royal crown matching a list of shapes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to identify, count and describe some of the different shapes added as jewels to a royal crown.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to identify and count the numbers of different geometric shapes that can be seen in special places, themes and illustrations. 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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