This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise counting and recording numbers of star decorations that could be displayed on a Christmas tree to twenty using words and digits.

The class can model how to use a range of different materials to add some star shapes to the Christmas tree pictures to match the selected numbers to twenty.

Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise counting and recording numbers of star decorations that could be displayed on a Christmas tree to twenty using words and digits

Activities in this teaching pack include worksheets to count and record the different numbers of star decorations that have been displayed on a Christmas tree to twenty using digits and words and a template to select and create a matching number of star decorations to add to a tree shape.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count and record numbers of star decorations displayed on a Christmas tree to twenty using words and digits.

This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to practise counting and recording different numbers of Christmas objects to twenty using their matching numerical digits and vocabulary words. 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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