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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