This week we have been doing lots of counting and looking at numbers.  It has been great fun!   We have had numbers in the water and sand, on puzzles, computer games and at the writing area.  Here are photos of some of the activities we have used to keep the children interested.  We have been encouraging accurate counting by organising the items to be counted carefully, and touching each of the things as we count.  Our number recognition is also coming on.  We are working on number recognition of 1-5 with our ante-pre-schoolers and 1-10 with our pre-school children.  If you would like any maths games or puzzles to use at home with your child, please speak to staff.  Thank you for all the feedback on the learning journals.  From this, we have learned that many of our children are beginning to enjoy writing their names so next week we are focusing on pencil control and for those who show interest, copying words too.