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Shape Hunt
This numeracy topic teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise counting and recording the numbers of different 2D shapes that can be found in a range of special locations around the school building and grounds.
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 classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise counting and recording the numbers of different 2D shapes that can be found in a range of special locations around the school building and grounds
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to identify and record the numbers of different 2D shapes that can be found around the school building or grounds when counting the spotted shapes in each location working with numbers to ten.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count and record the numbers of different 2D shapes that can be found in special locations around the school.
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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