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CHANGING FUTURES

Kindy

Maths

Pack

There is no need to complete all the activities or do

them in any specific order. Short activities presented

and repeated in a fun way will the most beneficial.

Have fun with your child.

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Day 1: Number and Counting

Pegs around a bowl or cup.

You need: a plastic bowl/ cup and 5 pegs.

Ask your child to put some pegs around the bowl/ cup.

Ask you child ‘How many’ pegs are there?”

Repeat with different amounts of pegs.

Use less or more p gs d p nding on you child’s counting

skills.

If your child is ready:

Once your child has counted the pegs around the bowl, move the

pegs around the bowl and ask how many are there now? If your

child t i s to count th p gs, you could sk, “Did w dd ny p gs

on or take any away? Let’s check”.

Scavenger hunt in and around the house and garden. For example:

Find 3 sticks. C n you count ‘how ny’?

Find 4 l v s. C n you count ‘how ny’?

Find 5 toy cars. Can you count ‘how ny’?

More and Less – Building Towers

At the same time as each other, grab some Lego blocks

or any other objects.

Build a tower if you are using Lego or blocks.

Count how many you each have.

Help your child to tell you who has more or less.

If you do

not

have any

pegs, ask

your child

to count

everyday

items

into a

bowl, e.g.

stones,

pencils,

spoons

etc.

You will probably need to help

your child to find 3/4/5/ items

as this is a difficult skill for

young children.

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If you h v g bb d th s ount, you could s y, “ ou h v

the same s .”

Day 2: Number and Counting - Subitising.

Caterpillar Dice and Roll

Choose a caterpillar.

Take turns rolling the dice or turning over the dotted cards

provided in this pack.

Use a counter / pebble/ pre-cut circles to cover the circle

with the same amount of dots.

Encourage your child to tell you how many dots there are by

looking (no counting).

Both players try to cover their caterpillar.

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Subitising Snap: Share the dotted cards (provided in this

pack) with your child and play snap.

Day 3: Sorting

Sorting by colour: Find a selection of different coloured objects

(e.g. Lego/ clothes/ buttons/ nature

items from the garden etc.)

Help your child to put all the red items

together, blue items together and so

on. Help your child to tell you how he/ she is sorting. For

example:

“This is the blu g oup; this is th d g oup”.

“Th ppl go s in th d g oup because it is d”.

“Th d things go tog th ; th y th same colou ”.

Sort the objects into red/ not red for example. Help your child

to tell you how he/ she is sorting. For

example:

“Th ppl is d, th b n n is not

red.”

If your child can easily sort by colour

and tell you how he/ she is sorting you

Red

Not red

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can sort in many different ways. For example:

big and small/ tall and short(size)

circles/ triangles(shape)

flat/ not flat

Remember to explain how you are sorting in all these activities.

Day 4: Patterning

Copy the colour

pattern

Continue the colour pattern.

Fun ideas

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Draw a long and a short line.

Look in and around your house for patterns. For example: spoon/

fork/spoon/ fork.

Use objects in and around the house (e.g. pegs/ fruit/stickers) and make

patterns. For example start a pattern sequence and ask your child to

continue it: apple/ orange/ apple/ orange. Say, “What comes next?”

Get moving and make patterns with your body. For example: jump/

clap/ jump/ clap.

Day 5: Measurement – long/ short/ tall

Fun with Blocks or Lego

Build long and short roads – young children

enjoy making something very long.

Build tall and short towers.

If you don’t have Lego or blocks you could use plastic lids / plastic containers

as building blocks.

.

There is blank paper in your pack if you want to draw more long and short lines.

Get moving:

Look for long and short things in the garden. Sort the items into two groups:

a long group and a short group.

Walk around the garden and find tall trees.

Google a recipe for playdough.

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Shape Treasure Hunt

Walk around the house looking for shapes – Colour or draw a circle

around each shape you find. Don’t fo g t to n th sh p .

Make long and short snakes.

Make long and short sausages – give your child a blunt plastic knife to cut

the sausage into short pieces.

If your child und st nds ‘long’ nd ‘sho t’, ake a snake and ask your child

to make a longer/ shorter snake.

Put sticks of different lengths in a bag and ask your child to pull out a long or

short stick.

Encourage your child to tell you if something is short, long or tall during these

activities.

Day 6: Shapes

Try find and name these shapes if your child can name the first 4

shapes.

Building with pop sticks.

Use pop sticks or toothpicks and small pieces of playdough to make different shapes. Help your child to find and count the sides and corners.

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Fun ideas

Get moving: Draw chalk shapes outside on the concrete and call one out for your

child to jump on. Praise if they get it right – “y s you ju p d on th ci cl ”. Help

your child to draw the shapes with chalk or with water and a large paintbrush.

Cut up you child’s s ndwich s/ sn cks/ f uit into squ es, circles,

rectangles and triangles. Ask your child to find the triangle etc.

Build a square, triangle, circle, rectangle out of Lego bricks.

Puzzles are a great way to practise rotating shapes and to talk about corners and

sides.

Cut out a triangle/ rectangle/ circle/ square and make/draw shape

pictures (Use the paper provided in the pack).

More Number and Counting Fun.

Help your child make items (apples/ balls etc.) out of playdough and

count them. Make enough balls for the Five

Frame (included in this pack).

Roll a dice and count the matching number of

items into a tub and onto the five frame.

Hide some objects in some sand or playdough – let your child find

them all and count them.

Write a number on a paper plate/ card and peg the matching

amount of pegs around the outside of the plate/ card.

Fill containers with water/ sand and ask your child who has more/

less.

Search You Tube for Number songs and rhymes to watch and sing

along to: For example:

o 5 Little Ducks

o 5 Currant Buns

o 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Once I caught a Fish Alive

o 5 Green, Speckled Frogs

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o 5 Little Monkeys Jumping On The Bed

Play Hopscotch – draw a hopscotch track with chalk from 1-5/ 1-10

on the concrete. Help your child to jump along the track saying the

numbers as he/she jumps on each square.

Useful interactive Maths Websites

https://www.topmarks.co.uk

https://kidsactivitiesblog.com/

https://www.youtube.com/user/JackHartmann -subitising, counting, colour and

shape songs.

Resources

5 Frame – Use this to help count to 5 by placing objects in each box.

Us this to wo k out ‘How M ny’?

Use this to practise subitising

Shapes

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Subitising

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