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Street Counting

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to count and record the numbers of different objects that can be seen in some of the streets that are close to the school building.
The class can match different numbers that have been written in words used in sentences listing some of the things that can be seen in a street to their matching numerical digits.
Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to count and record the numbers of different objects that can be seen in some of the streets that are close to the school building
Activities in this teaching pack include a set of differentiated worksheets to practise counting and recording the numbers of different objects to five for support ability levels, to ten for core ability levels and to twenty for extension ability levels that can be seen in streets close to the school.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count the numbers of different objects that can be seen in streets close to the school.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to practise counting and recording matching sets of objects to ten, twenty and thirty to illustrate and record some of the special things that can be seen around a city. 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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