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We hope you enjoyed looking at the white squirrels yesterday and trying some of the suggested activities.
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Here are today’s ideas:
Craig has been enjoying learning about numbers and using them at home so that inspires today’s post.
- Do you know the Numberblocks? In this episode they are thinking big! What is the biggest number you know? Do you think you have that many toys?
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0007ln6/numberblocks-series-4-29-one-thousand-and-one
2. Here is a story read by one of our friends at Giffnock Nursery. It’s called “How Big is a Million?”. What do you think? Talk to your adult about what a million might look like before you read. …Now that you have heard the story, have you changed your mind? Do you have new ideas? Or other questions?
3. It can be tricky to visualise large numbers such as thousands or millions but little everyday items can help your child explore this if they are interested. What about grains of rice, lentils or sand to play with and talk about big numbers. Often referred to as ‘sprinkles’ or ‘funfetti’ in the US, you could make something sweet with ‘hundreds and thousands’.
4. Why not play a simple board game where you practise taking turns but also counting how many spaces to move and recognising the numbers represented on a dice? This immediate recognition of a small group (of dots in this case), without having to count each one individually is called subitising and a skill we try to develop in the children.
5. Now think about numbers on a number line. Can you use your number recognition skills to undertake a helicopter rescue? Try this game:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/helicopter-rescue
6. Maybe you would prefer to create a colourful image by saying the number and painting the square in this activity:
https://www.topmarks.co.uk/learning-to-count/paint-the-squares
7. Why don’t you go on a number hunt at home or out on your walk? Perhaps you could take some photos just like I did. Which is the largest number you can find? And the smallest? What is your house number?
8. Do you have some chalk? Why not create some number games outdoors?
9. Can you recognise and match numerals in this online paint by numbers?
http://coloritbynumbers.com/online
10. Compare quantities in the Toy Shop challenge.
