Unit A – Zoo Counting
This numeracy scheme of work for the Foundation Stage gets the children to count, compare and order sets of objects to twenty and identify the matching numbers using words and numerals. The class can use numbers of animals found in a zoo to demonstrate their understanding of numbers to twenty.
Count, compare and order sets of objects to twenty and identify the matching numbers using words and numerals
Lesson One : Words and Digits
Identify, count and record different numbers of animals that live in a zoo to twenty and identify the matching numeral digits and vocabulary words for each number
Lesson Two : Next Numbers
Sequence, compare and match different numbers about visiting a zoo to twenty recorded in both words and numerical digits
Lesson Three : Animal Numbers
Investigate, order and compare each of the numbers to twenty written in words and digits to match animals that can be seen when visiting a zoo
Lesson Four : Number Lists
Count, read and write numbers to twenty that can match different quantities of food that can be fed to some of the animals that live in a zoo
Lesson Five : Number Boxes
Count and match different numbers of animals that can be seen when visiting a zoo to twenty that have been recorded in both words and numerical digits
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Owl and the Pussycat
Explore and role-play the sequence of events and language used in a traditional poem and investigate and spell cvc words with the same initial sounds
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Story Sentences
Practise writing example sentences to describe some of the different events and settings that feature in the traditional story poem of the Owl and the Pussycat
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Story Map
Design and produce a map to record a journey that is being described in a traditional story to show the sequence of events and locations that feature in the narrative
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Story Journeys
Suggest, describe and record some of the alternative events that might occur in a story based on the narrative sequence of a traditional tale