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

  • Food and Drink Colours

    Food and Drink Colours

    Identify and describe some of the different colours that can be used when buying, preparing and making foods for a range of meals

  • Calendar Days

    Calendar Days

    Identify and record the sequence of the seven days of the week using the correct vocabulary words to describe units of time on a calendar

  • Fantasy Stories

    Fantasy Stories

    Identify and describe some of the special characters, locations and events that can occur in narrative stories with fantasy settings

  • Class Portraits

    Class Portraits

    Investigate and practise some of the different artwork techniques that can be used when composing and painting a portrait of a classmate