Collected Resources

Counting

• Using a range of 3-D shapes, build a tower. Count the shapes as they are placed on the tower.
• If some fall off, practise counting backwards.
• Start again and continue counting forwards.
• How many can we get to?

Number Bonds

• Give each child a piece of Numicon. When I say 3 stand up…When I say 6 stand up… Continue to revise number recognition like this then…
• Hold up a 4 piece ‘When I say 4…’ Children who have 6 stand up with their piece…. ‘We say 6!’
• Continue to practise all the number bonds... ‘When I say 8…’ ‘We say 2!’ etc.

Song

London Bridge is falling down
See download for song words.

Books

• When I Build with Blocks by Niki Alling
• Let’s build a house: a book about buildings and materials by Mick and Brita Manning and Granström
• Rapunzel and Jack and the Beanstalk Traditional Tales
• I spy with My Little Eye…Shapes! by Marian Yiangou

Counting

NB - If the ‘normal game’ is taught at the beginning of the week, children can play as a group during independent learning time.

• Now play a variation of What’s the Time Mr Wolf as a class. In this version let each child choose one of, say, five animals: chicken, rabbit, duckling, lamb, squirrel. How many rabbits/chickens/squirrels/ lambs or ducklings has he got to eat?
• Agree which animal each child is.
• The wolf says an animal and an o’clock time, e.g. rabbits and five o’clock. The rabbits hop that number of times towards the wolf.
• The wolf gives different animals different times.
• When ‘dinnertime’ is shouted, they run back to the start, hoping not to get caught!

Song/ Rhyme

Hickory dickory dock
See the Resource download for song words.

Books

Tiddler by Julia Donaldson
Look at the clocks in the story. What time do they show? What time should he have arrived at school? What time does he swim into the school?!

What’s the Time Mr Wolf? by Debi Gliori
Follow Mr Wolf through his day with times.