Making Sense of Numbers

At Rachel Keeling, we support children's understanding of number in meaningful ways such as cooking, planting and harvesting, making recyclable models, problem solving real problems together, sharing resources and routines of the day such as setting up the tables for lunch and helping Glenn with his tasks.
Sometimes we also need to further support this learning with explicit teaching: supporting children to count with one to one correspondence, recognising numerals and use specific vocabulary such as 'more' 'less' and comparing quantities. 
Over the past week children have sustained concentration and developed independence in being able to recognise numerals, use the number names and being able to count out correct amounts and match them to the numeral.  This has been developed over time so children can return and master it. 

We will be building upon this learning with more experiences to develop children's counting and recognising numerals: using special resources and treasures and moving on to estimating and tallying. 

Do you encourage your child to help with chores at home? Counting as they tidy up or brush their teeth.
Helping get cutlery out for meal times and looking at door and bus numbers when you're out and about are practical and fun ways to develop an understanding of number.