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Counting Games

This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to play a number games to practise counting different numbers of objects and shapes to ten when identifying the matching numeral digits. The class can match numbers in each game that have recorded in digits and words.

Shape Numbers Counting
Practise playing a paired game to count and match different numbers of shapes and identify and record the matching numerals on the game board

Dice Words
Play a game to select and match different numbers that can be shown on dice faces to their written representations that have been recorded in words

Noughts and Crosses Five
Play different number games that can be won by counting different numbers of shapes to five when identifying the matching numeral digits on the game board

Noughts and Crosses Ten
Play different number games that can be won by counting different numbers of shapes to five when identifying the matching numeral digits on the game board
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Halving Things
Explain and model how to find and record the halves of some of the different objects that can be used at home and in school
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School Friends
Identify and learn classroom routines and organisation by exploring and describing information and likes and dislikes for each of their classmates
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Classroom
Identify the location and function of different objects used in the classroom and explore how to formulate rules to manage the classroom safely
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Shape Patterns
Identify, describe and compare the sequences of geometric shapes that have been used to create a range of different patterns