Maths & Numeracy Monthly Challenges

Hello everyone! 👋

Each month we will post a new Maths and Numeracy challenge for you all to have a go and take part in at home with your family! 👩‍🔬👨‍🔬

Each challenge provides a range of opportunities to develop key numeracy skills such as counting, matching and sorting and mathematical language and some tips on how you can encourage conversations with your little people which will develop these skills 🧩🧪➕

Have a look below for this months and our previous months challenges and all the fantastic ways our children and families have given them a go at home! 🏡👦👧

Remember if you do take on any challenges please let us know and send in any pictures if you can either directly to our Facebook page or on your child’s learning journals, so we can make sure to acknowledge your hard work!

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January Numeracy Home Link Challenge

Measurement At Home

For January’s challenge we would like you to find out who the tallest and shortest members of your family are. You can measure using lots of different ways, from measuring tapes and rulers using centimetres and metres, to using hands, feet or other objects around your home. Let us know how you chose to measure your family members.

We would love to see a picture you have drawn of your findings, who is tallest, shortest and everyone in between!

December Numeracy Home Link Challenge

Collage Christmas Tree

For December we would love for your child to use their creative skills along with their Maths to create a Christmas tree out of collage. You can use anything you have at home, cut up old newspapers/magazines, boxes, card, wrapping paper, stickers etc. It can be 2D or if you are feeling adventurous it can be a 3D model!

When you are helping your child with this we want to be focusing on shapes, talking about what different 2D/3D shapes you can see/draw/cut. Can you add different shapes together to make new shapes? What shapes do we need to make a tree, baubles etc?

We cant wait to see what amazing creations you all come up with and what shapes you can use and make.

Good Luck!

November Numeracy Home Link Challenge

A Number Search

For this months challenge we would like you to have a look all around your local environment, from your home, outdoors, in shops etc and see if you can find the numbers 0-10! Here are some examples of where you might find them…

We would love when you find some if you can ask your adult to take a picture with some of them and upload these to your learning journal, so we can all see how busy you have been!

Good luck, we can’t wait to see where you can find some numbers!

One of the children managed to find the numbers, 0,1 and 8 at the swimming pool!

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October Numeracy Home Link Challenge

An Autumn Colour Hunt

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To start us off on our monthly numeracy challenges, we are asking you to take part in an Autumn colour hunt!

Can you take an autumn walk with your family and collect some natural resources such as leaves/sticks etc and use these to make a colourful picture at home? 🍂🌿

Points to talk about with your child:

What colours can you see, are the leaves green, red, yellow or brown? ❤️💛🧡🤎💚
What shapes can you find, can you make shapes out of what you have collected such as a square with sticks?🟧🟤🔺️
Can you use different coloured leaves to make a pattern?

We cant wait to see what you find and what you can create using natural resources!🎨 Please let us know what you have learned while doing this at home! 📚

If you have any pictures you have made you can either bring them into the ECC to stick in our floor book or send a photo to our facebook, your learning journal, or by email to katie.mcaughtrie@eastayrshire.org.uk.

Look how busy our children have been on their autumn colour hunts!