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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Garden Measurements
Practise using vocabulary words and non-standard measurements to find and compare the length of different things that can found in a garden
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Family Holiday
Identify and recount events and experiences to describe what happened when on holiday at the seaside using sentences in the past tense
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Money Shopping
Investigate and model some of the number skills that need to be used when working with money on a shopping trip
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Supporting Others
Explore how to build strong and positive relationships with other pupils at school and family members at home through different situations and scenarios