Would you rather?

This is a fab game to play with children to get to know them better. You can download the game from my website. Click here

Number recognition and fine motor skills

Another fab activity for counting and number recognition using pipe cleaners and small beads. Lots of practice with find motor skills too. Check out this link

Here you can push on the brighter children with a simple addition problem

Ordering activity

Fabulous idea for children to order numbers. Write the numbers on lolly sticks and layout a long sausage of play dough or plasticine. Check out this link.

Maths area resources

Here are a few ideas for using in Maths areas or stations. The wheels need pegs with the correct answer on each peg. Child has to work out the answer and peg the correct peg to it.

You need to cut these up along the lines to make jigsaws.

Peg the number

I saw this idea on a German site and thought it was brilliant aswell as very adaptable to other things.
Basically you have to put numbers on pegs (a small sticker should do it). Number the pegs from 1-10. The child has to match the correct number to the number of Jellybeans.
This could be adaptable in many different ways.
Matching phonemes
Matching colours
Matching number sentences to the correct answer
Times tables
It is such a simple idea but fabulous for challenge areas in classrooms and look at all the fine motor skills that are needed to actually peg onto the wheel.

The list is endless.

I have made one for cvc words and emotional literacy

I used pegs and wrote with permanent markers, afterall how cheap are pegs?

5 little speckled frogs

I absolutely love this idea of creating a prop for the song '5 little speckled frogs' It could also be used to do numbers up to 5, adding, taking away etc

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Here are is some frog pictures which you could use or just go onto microsoft clipart and choose your own

You could adapt this tube idea for other songs or stories. Love it!

Zap the dinosaur (number bonds to 10)

Zap the dinosaur game
Children have a game board each and a set of counters. Child picks a number card and zaps the corresponding bond to 10 on his/her board. The first person to zap all their dinosaurs is the winner. I have included a set of number cards but am sure you could use the digit cards from school.

Number formation practise

These could be printed and laminated for lots of practise, or used as a worksheet. They could also be put together as a book.

Click here for the pdf


Here is an example picture.

Zap that dinosaur (doubles game)

Very simple game where children throw a die and double the number. They then cover up one of the dinosaurs on their board. The first person to cover (zap) all the dinosaurs is the winner

Counting dinosaurs

These cards could be used for alsorts of games.

Snap - mix the cards and deal out.
Sorting the dinosaurs
Give the child a number and they have to count out that many dinosaurs.
Pairs games, deal a selection out and place face down, child has to find 2 that match.
Adding numbers together. 5 dinosaurs add 3 dinosaurs equals ?
Take a handful of dinosaurs and find the correct number.

Dinosaur double the number

Throw a die and use a counter to count that many squares, double the number you land on.

Dinosaur adding or subtracting game

Write your own rule in the starburst, eg add 1, subtract 1, add 2, subtract 2, double the number, number bonds to 10 etc.

Ghost game recognise the numbers

Children to throw a die and move that many spaces, they then have to read the number and count out that many ghosts to keep. If incorrect they must go back to the beginning.

How many ghosts can you catch (counting game)

Learning Objective: to count objects upto 5

Children to have a counter each. Throw a die. Which ever square they land on they have to count the ghosts. If correct then they can stay on the square. If wrong they have to go back to the beginning.

Rainbow numberlines

Money recognition worksheets and games

Match the coins to the amount of money
Money bingo

Count the coins

Money spinner

Money board game

Money dice

All these sheets were made from this website http://www.mathworksheetwizard.com/kindergarten/money.html

SEN numeracy planning and resources

I thought I would share some of my planning which I use with SEN/EAL learners.

Here is the first weeks planning with hyperlinks to the resources. I run this over 3 days per week. I think it is important to use real money and not the plastic stuff.

Week 1

Money bingo up to 10p

Letters and Sounds phase 2 - choose the picture/choose the word

Letters and Sounds - phase 2 and 3 'Bang game' for EAL/SEN

This 'bang' game is played in the same way as the others but with a strong visual clue. This can help children with EAL to learn new vocabulary as well as blend the word.