This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to select a range of different ornaments to buy that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree and calculate their matching money totals.

The class can practise using concrete objects and diagrams to model counting on when adding pairs of numbers to ten for each of the selected Christmas ornaments.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to select a range of different ornaments to buy that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree and calculate their matching money totals

Activities in this teaching pack include templates to select and calculate the cost of decorations that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree and identify and record numbers of Christmas baubles that can match different money amounts to ten pence.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore a range of different ornaments that can be used to decorate a Christmas tree and calculate money totals.

This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get 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. 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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