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Counting Loops

This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and model how to count in different steps to twenty working with concrete equipment and pictorial diagrams to complete each set of numbers. The class can produce some example cards to create their own counting loops.

Counting Loops Ones

Practise completing and matching sequences showing the numbers to twenty when counting in steps of one using concrete equipment and shape diagrams

Counting Loops Twos

Practise completing and matching sequences showing the numbers to twenty when counting in steps of two using concrete equipment and shape diagrams

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