Lesson Three – Counting Threes

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise counting and writing quantities of different types of vegetables that can match the number three recorded showing its numerical digit.

The class can select and record numbers of vegetables to five by counting using matching sets of concrete objects when playing a paired game.

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 types of vegetables that can match the number three recorded showing its numerical digit

Activities in this teaching pack include worksheets to select and record counted numbers of different types of vegetables to match numbers to five and play a game to count numbers of shapes to two and three and identify the matching numerals.

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

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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