Lesson Four – Days and Weeks

This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to practise selecting and listing some special events and experiences to match different units of time in the calendar for days and weeks.

The class can produce and display a calendar to record some of the things that they could do at home or in school to match each of the different time periods.

Download this teaching pack including a lesson plan, classroom activities and an interactive presentation to practise selecting and listing some special events and experiences to match different units of time in the calendar for days and weeks

Activities in this teaching pack include a template to select and record events and experiences to match time periods for different days of week and a vocabulary word bank to choose things that can happen at home or in school to use when building an example calendar.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to list events and experiences to match different units of time in the calendar for days and weeks.

This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to select and use special vocabulary words to describe different periods of time including days of the week and months of the year to match family events and experiences. 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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