This numeracy teaching pack for the Foundation Stage gets the children to identify and model how to count and record the numbers of presents that might be stacked under a Christmas tree to twenty using words and digits.

The class can use their completed presents numbers to wrap a selection of small boxes matching some of the numbers to place under the class tree to celebrate Christmas.

Download this teaching pack including classroom activities and an interactive presentation to identify and model how to count and record the numbers of presents that might be stacked under a Christmas tree to twenty using words and digits

Activities in this teaching pack include worksheets to model how to count and record different numbers of presents to twenty using numbers written in digits and a template to select and create a matching number of presents to stack under the class Christmas tree.

The interactive presentation gets the children to explore how to count and record numbers of presents under a Christmas tree to twenty using words and digits.

This lesson is part of a numeracy scheme of work to get the children to practise counting and recording different numbers of Christmas objects to twenty using their matching numerical digits and vocabulary words. There are teaching activities for shared learning, differentiated worksheets to support independent learning and interactive presentations to introduce concepts and key skills.

  • Nursery Rhymes

    Nursery Rhymes

    Identify and describe the sequence of events and characters that feature in a range of different narrative poems with rhymes

  • Mulberry Bush

    Mulberry Bush

    Perform actions and select vocabulary words to complete some of the different lines that feature in a traditional poem of a nursery rhyme

  • Old Macdonald’s Farm

    Old Macdonald’s Farm

    Identify and use a selection of vocabulary words in a nursery rhyme poem to describe some of the different animals that live on a farm

  • Jack and Jill

    Jack and Jill

    Identify and change some of the different sets of rhyming words that have been used in a traditional narrative poem of a nursery rhyme