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

  • Animal Sizes

    Animal Sizes

    Practise using the correct vocabulary words to identify and describe the sizes of different animals that live in the world

  • Animal Words

    Animal Words

    Identify and match sets of statements to describe the sizes of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of bigger and smaller

  • Animal Lengths

    Animal Lengths

    Identify and match sets of statements to describe the length of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of longer and shorter

  • Animal Heights

    Animal Heights

    Identify and match sets of statements to describe the height of a range of different animals using the vocabulary words of taller and shorter