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Great pet sale!

Topics Reception
This unit is part of Animals Pets

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Objectives

Early learning goals

  • Count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, say which number is one more or one less than a given number.
  • Solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.
  • Use everyday language to talk about size, weight, capacity, position, distance, time and money to compare quantities and objects and to solve problems.
  • Use what thas been learnt about media and materials in original ways, thinking about uses and purposes.
  • Represent ideas, thoughts and feelings through design and technology, art, music, dance, role-play and stories.

Lesson Planning

Listen to The Great Pet Sale by Mick Inkpen, take part in pet shop sale, pay for animals, write price tags, draw out mathematical language and make zig-zag books.

Teaching Outcomes
 To recognise coin amounts and use money to pay for different pets during role-play.


Children will:

  • Interact with a story, understanding and enjoying reading it.
  • Work out money amounts using coins.
  • Use lots of mathematical language associated with money and one more/one less, bigger/smaller etc.
  • Use role-play to explore maths problems.

Provided Resources

  • SALE signs
  • Price tags
  • Pictures of animals from the story

You Will Need

  • The Great Pet Sale by Mike Inkpen
  • Lots of coins, real and plastic
  • Lots of soft toy pets
  • Zig-zag books
  • Chubby crayons
  • Water/sand tray
  • Brushes or nets
  • Tweezers
  • Numicom
  • Computers

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