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Counting
Point to any number on the 1-20 track. Children say the next three numbers. Repeat.
Number bonds
Play ‘Give me 5’. Show a number of fingers up to 5. Children show you the number of fingers needed to make 5, e.g. you show 4, they show 1.
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Sing ‘5 little men in a flying saucer’, e.g. at Five Little Men in a Flying Saucer from www.bbc.co.uk
Pause to ask how many will be left each time.
Story
Quack and count by Keith Baker
Bonds to 10
Counting
Split the class into two groups. Display a 1-100 grid. The first group say 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, the 2nd group say 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, the 1st group say 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, and so on alternating groups of 5 to count to 100.
Number bonds
Place children in pairs. Ask each pair to show you 10 fingers altogether, so one child might show 6 and the other might show 4. Now ask them to do this in a different way. Repeat.
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Pairs to 10
See download for words of the rhyme.
Story
Ten Red Apples by Pat Hutchins
How many apples have been eaten? How many are left on the tree? Prompt children to try to remember to use number bonds to answer.