Exploring and Playing
Short Blocks
Maths Reception Summer Clever Counting
Hamilton's Reception Maths planning targets the key characteristics of effective early learning:
- Through Exploring and Playing, children independently engage with their peers and their environment.
- Active Learning group activities promote the motivation needed to be involved and to keep trying.
- Guided Creating and Thinking Critically supports development of problem-solving & reasoning skills.
Maths Out Loud: whole-class counting, repetitive chants, rhymes, songs and a linked story to enjoy together.
Counting on; 1 more/ less (suggested as 5 days)
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Count on together as children pass the teddy around the circle, but once the count has passed 10, shout ‘Change!’ Children pass the teddy back around, all counting backwards. ‘Change!’ again at 5, and then at 20.
Number bonds
Show 7 fingers as 4 on one hand and 3 on the other. Say ‘four add three equals seven’ and record as 4 + 3 = 7. Then fold down 3 fingers. Say ‘7 subtract 3 is 4’. Stand up the 3. Say ‘four add three equals seven’. Fold down 4. Say ‘7 subtract 4 is 3’, etc. This is to show that subtraction and addition are inverse operations.
Repeat with other pairs, showing a number on each hand. Children copy the process with their fingers.
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
‘One little elephant went out to play’, e.g. at One little elephant went out to play from www.YouTube.com. Children predict how many elephants there will be each time.
Story
Rooster’s Off to See the World by Eric Carle
How many animals do children think Rooster will meet next?
You Will Need
Exploring and Playing
Chairs, a steering wheel and a bus stop; play people and playground equipment, e.g. swings, slide and roundabout; selection of cars and a ‘car park’; plastic cups/beakers in the sand tray/pit.
Active Learning
A 1 to 20 number track, a teddy, a puppet (optional), 20 biscuits, a plate and tea towel; chair, blanket, 5 lions/tigers, flipchart and pens; 1-20 floor track, teddy, two cards: one with +1, one with -1; Ducks on a pond’ PowerPoint (see resources).
Creating and Thinking Critically
Large sheet of paper for game track; counters; coin; bricks; dice with +1 on three faces and +2 on the other three faces; cubes; large sheet of paper for ladder; a dice with +1, +2, +3, -1, +1, +2 on its faces; a 1-20 floor track (or draw one on the playground); addition and subtraction cards
Clever counting (suggested as 5 days)
Exploring and Playing
Active Learning
Creating and Thinking Critically
Maths Out Loud
Counting
Display a 1-20 washing line. Whisper count in 2s (whisper 1, shout 2, whisper 3 etc.).
Display a 1-100 grid. Whisper count in 5s to 50 (whisper 1, 2, 3, 4, shout 5, whisper 6, 7, 8, 9, shout 10 etc).
Display a 1-100 grid. Use it to support counting in 10s from 10 to 100.
Chants/Rhymes/Songs
Sing along to One, two buckle my shoe, e.g. this version from the BBC.
Point to the even numbers on the washing line as you do so.
Story
Eggs and Legs: Counting by Twos by Michael Dahl.
You Will Need
Exploring and Playing
Collections of objects in pairs, e.g. pairs of shoes, pairs of cubes, pairs of eyes for craft work, pairs of socks, 2p coins; 2 to 20 number cards (2s only); a ball; selection of old magazines/catalogues, scissors, glue sticks and paper; 2s, 5s and 10s cards (see resources)
Active Learning
Flipchart and pens; ‘Pairs of socks’ PowerPoint (see resources); ‘Starfish’ PowerPoint (see resources); ‘Counting crabs’ PowerPoint (see resources)
Creating and Thinking Critically
A 100-bead bar (each group of 10 beads in alternate colours) and 10s tags, OR ten towers of 10 cubes; 1-100 grid; 10 to 100 cards (10s only); different size grids (see resources); coloured pencils/crayons; two teddies, two purses, 5p and 2p coins