Our Current Topic
Numbers
This is just a starting point, We follow the childrens interests and develop our learning from there.
Communication and Language
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Have group discussion, encourage children to listen to each other.
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Bring numbers into the role play area- Telephone numbers, calculators, door numbers etc.
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New vocabulary- calculate and calculation
Physical Development
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Go on number hunts
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Count steps, hops and jumps
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Can you make yourself taller? or smaller?
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Make number tracks on the ground and encourage the children to explore these.
Literacy​
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Do helicopter stories around our theme.
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Provide number books and props.
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Make a sensory tray using coloured rice, encourage the children to make marks in this using fingers.
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Have lots of stories with repetition and rhyme and encourage everyone to join in.
Personal, social and emotional development
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Talk about how we are all unique, just like each flower.
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Talk about our families, talk about how many people are in our family.
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Talk about birthdays and how old we re, what is your special number? can you find your number outside?
Understanding the world
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​Look at days of the week.
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Look at "The very hungry caterpillar by Eric Carl- How many of each fruit did he eat?
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What is the number of your door?
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Look at tall trees and little flowers.
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Count everything while out and about.
Mathematics
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Sort natural resources such as leaves and flowers by size, look at the language of size
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Look at the language of size, tiny, tall, thin, wide.
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Count everything, look at more and less.
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Make number lines with the children following their interest.
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Play dice games and dominoes.
Expressive Arts and Design
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Make and decorate numbers to make a number line.
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Make big, small and middle sized houses, animals etc and compare sizes.
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Dance- make big movements and small movements.