Lesson Two – Counting Books

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise counting and ordering different sets of classroom topic books into the correct order working with different numbers to ten.
The class can count different pairs of piles of books to ten and record the matching sums that have been written in numeral digits.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise counting and ordering different sets of classroom topic books into the correct order working with different numbers to ten
Activities in this teaching pack include a template to count and record numbers of classroom books working with different numbers to ten and a set of cards to select and compare different pairs of numbers to ten by counting matching numbers of cubes.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count and order sets of classroom books working with different numbers to ten.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to count, record and compare sets of different objects to ten and identify the matching numbers using numerals. 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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