Maths

Activities

Pairing socks (talk about the sock patterns and match them)
Playing Snakes & Ladders
Talk about the size of objects (large, big, tall, medium, small, tiny, short)
Practise filling containers in the bath (full, nearly full, half full, nearly empty, empty)
Write numbers on pegs and ask children to order them
Order numbers 0-20 in a line then ask 'what is one more than...?' or 'what is one less than...?' (see pack sent home for number cards)
Measure ingredients to help with baking (cup measurements are best)
Sing number songs e.g. five currant buns, five speckled frogs (you can find these on YouTube)
Sort toys by colour or shape
Sort coins by colour, size or amount
Use blocks or other household objects to create shapes and talk about their properties (e.g. how many sides, how many corners etc.)
Build towers with blocks or Lego (ask how many blocks have you used? Can you use the same amount of blocks to build a different tower?)
Make a bowling game with empty plastic bottles (ask how many did you knock over)
Count objects in the house
Add and subtract simple 1 digit numbers (numbers 1-9) using objects
Share amounts of objects/ share an orange equally/ split an apple in half/ double amounts of objects