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Garden Measurements

This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden. The class can make lists of objects to match the measurement words for length and height.

Garden Heights
Practise sorting some different types of plants and flowers that are grown in a family garden into matching groups by their height

Leaf Lengths
Investigate and record how to compare and order some different leaves found in a garden location by their matching lengths using non-standard measurements

Flower Heights
Explore and record how to use some non-standard measurements to measure the height of different flowers that can be found in garden areas around the school grounds

Park Trees
explore how to select and use special vocabulary words to describe and compare the sizes of some different trees that can be found in a local park
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Garden Measurements
Practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden
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Family Holiday
Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense
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Money Shopping
Investigate and model some of the number skills that need to be used when working with money on a shopping trip
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Supporting Others
Explore how to build strong and positive relationships with other pupils at school and family members at home through different situations and scenarios