Unit K – Christmas Shopping
This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to solve a range of money problems about different things that families might need to buy to celebrate Christmas by adding money amounts within twenty. The class can use concrete objects and diagrams to count on when adding numbers.
Solve a range of money problems about different things that families might need to buy to celebrate Christmas by adding money amounts within twenty
Lesson One : Christmas Trees
Select a range of different ornaments to buy that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree and calculate their matching money totals
Lesson Two : Christmas Dinner
Select and calculate the cost of buying a range of different items of food for a family Christmas dinner
Lesson Three : Christmas Gifts
Calculate and record the cost of buying pairs of Christmas gifts for members of a family using money amounts to ten pence
Lesson Four : Christmas Cards
Model how to add pairs of single digit numbers to calculate the cost of buying cards for friends and family to celebrate Christmas
Lesson Five : Christmas Lists
Identify and record how to use counting on to add pairs of money amounts to ten pence to record the presents that have been placed in a stocking
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Vehicles
Identify, describe and compare some of the different journeys that can be made by bus, train or plane for a range of purposes by families
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School Counting
Explain and model how to count, order and compare the numbers of special tools and equipment that can be used when working in school lessons
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Family Visits
Practise selecting different vocabulary words to use when completing and composing poems about family visits to different locations
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Push and Pull
Identify, describe and test some of the different pushing and pulling forces that can be used to move a range of objects