Lesson Four – Counting Fours

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise counting and writing quantities of different farm animals and tools and equipment that can match the number four recorded showing its numerical digit.

The class can select and match diagrams showing numbers of objects used on a farm to five to the correct numerical digits.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to teach the children to practise counting and writing quantities of different farm animals and tools and equipment that can match the number four recorded showing its numerical digit

Activities in this teaching pack include a set of cards to match the numerals to five with the correct quantities of objects used when growing vegetables and a template to identify and record matching sets of apples to match each of the numbers to five.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count and write quantities of different objects that can match the number four.

This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to practise counting and labelling sets of different objects by writing and matching the numerals for each of the numbers to five. 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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