Lesson One – Street Counting

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to count and record numbers of different objects that can be seen around some of the streets that are close to the school building.
The class can identify and record groups of shapes to match each of the written numerical digits to ten by drawing matching numbers of objects.
Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to count and record numbers of different objects that can be seen around some of the streets that are close to the school building
Activities in this teaching pack include a worksheet to count and record numbers of different objects that can be seen in some of the streets close to the school and a set of cards to select and record numbers of shapes to match each of the numbers to ten.
The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count and record numbers of different objects that can be seen in some of the streets close to the school.
This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to count and record numbers of different objects that are one more than numbers to ten by using objects around the school and in the local area. 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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