Language Development Centre CHANGING FUTURES Kindy
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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