Garden Heights

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise sorting some different types of plants and flowers that are grown in a family garden into matching groups by their height.
The class can identify and use some special vocabulary words to match and compare some of the different things that can be found growing in a garden location.
Download this teaching pack including display posters, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise sorting some different types of plants and flowers that are grown in a family garden into matching groups by their height
Activities in this teaching pack include display posters to identify and describe the height of different plants and flowers grown in a garden, a set of cards to compare and record the height of some different plants and flowers growing in a garden to match vocabulary words and a template to list plants and flowers growing in a garden to match different heights for non-standard measurements.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore and record how to sort different plants and flowers grown in a garden into matching groups by their height.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get 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. 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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