Bathgate Early Years Centre

Everyday experiences can become mathematical adventures !!!
Mathematical adventure offer opportunities for children to develop their understanding of range of mathematical concepts e.g. numbers ,counting, space ,measuring ,shapes and patterns ,sorting and matching .

Try at home challenge is …  Have the adventure in your home ,garden and see if you can try to do at least one thing from the list below? 

1.  Can you find 2 things that match together?
2. Can you find 1 big ,medium, small object?
3. Can find one or two items with numbers on it?
4.  Can you spot different shapes ?

Please let us know how your mathematical adventure went through sharing photos and video with us.

Good luck  everyone !!!!!

 

 

 

 

 You can also be the author and illustrator of your own story,  it depends           on you  how long your story will be.  We’d love to hear and see your story.  Please share it with our nursery friends and send any photos and videos.

Make a home  -made book with your child about their favourite things .
Let your child make all the choices and decisions about what their book will    looks like  and what they put in it.  Provide simple house resources to create book e.g. colour pencils , pens ,cards, paper ,pictures from catalogues  and magazines , ribbon ,wool or string,scissors,  glue  and variety of materials with different patterns , colours  and textures.

Making home made books together  encourages loves of books and positive   towards sharing books and stories . Home made books together can support the development of early reading and writing skills .Children often want to become the storytellers themselves.We can support them through active listening, and promoting with occasionalquestions or contribution of write down children’s word .When children hear their words read back to them ,it helps them that the marks on the page carry their meanings .