This week we have continued our learning using the story ‘The Gingerbread Man’ the children have really joined in with the repeated phrase and have even added a little wiggle when they say it.
They have made their own Gingerbread Men in the play dough and talked about how many buttons they each added.
“I’ve got two buttons on my Gingerbread Man.”
“I’ve got 5, that’s all my fingers!”
This week, in Maths, we have been representing numbers in lots of different ways with our fingers, on a five frame and with marks. We have been counting carefully and finding out about the “stop” number. The concept that the final number counted is the total number of items in a group.
Next week we will start some new learning about weight. We will be using words such as heavy, light, heavier and lighter to compare different objects.
Help at home: You could continue this learning at home by asking questions during everyday activities. Which bag from the supermarket is heaviest/ lightest? Which toy is lighter? Can you find something that is lighter than the bottle of milk? Can you find something that is heavier than a packet of crisps?