Today we were working on the importance of counting. After their cup of tea (and chocolate biscuits!) the adults tried out counting using the alphabet – we had to pretend we lived in a place called ‘Letter Land’ where numbers were replaced by letters. This was VERY confusing, but it helped us see how tricky it must be for our children to learn the value of numbers.
When the children joined us, we enjoyed snack together before playing a game called ‘Ten Nice Things’. We each had a box of 10 party bag items, we took turns rolling a dice and we were then able to steal that number of items from our partner’s box. We kept playing until one person had lost all of the items in their box. Throughout this game the adults asked their children a variety of questions, such as:
- If I spin a two, will I win?
- If you have six things, how many have I got?
- If I have five things and I win three more, how many will I have altogether?
- If I have six and give you three, how many will I have? How many will you have?
- Who has the most/the fewest things?
We are positive everyone is going to have a lot of fun at home playing this game!
Next week our focus is on ‘Number Talk’
