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Reception/Year One Spring Term

This resource has been created for mixed age classes of early years and lower primary children. Supporting learning about number, place value and addition, the detailed weekly plans contain differentiated activities for the different year groups, guided tasks and the resources required for each lesson. Objectives covered in the lessons include:

Week One

  • Recite numbers to 20 then 100
  • Recognise, read and begin to write numbers more and less than 10
  • Count up and back from 20 to zero
  • Order numbers to 20 by placing them on a line
  • Place three numbers up to 20 in order
  • Find one more and one less than 2-digit number
  • Count in 10s from 10
  • Count in tens from any number
  • Estimate a quantity
  • Find ten more and ten less than any 2-digit number

Week Two

  • Know ordinal numbers
  • Count actions and sounds
  • Recite numbers to 20 and then to 100
  • Place numbers 1-20 on a number line
  • Place three numbers up to 20 in order
  • Say the next number to a given number up to 10
  • Match numerals to spoken numbers.
  • Know number bonds to 8
  • Know number bonds to 9
  • Recognise that adding can be done in any order
  • Find doubles to double 6
  • Add three numbers using number bonds to 10 and doubles

This resource, which is linked to the 2014 Early Years curriculum, has been provided by Hamilton Trust.

The Hamilton website also hosts a wealth of other free resources.

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