Category Archives: ks1 maths

Counting in 5’s and painting

Posted on July 10, 2014 by ofamily

I have a lovely book called “What your Year 1 child Needs to know”.  I like this book as it gives you some great ideas and one of these great ideas was doing hand painting  when you start your counting … Continue reading →

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Maths – adding using 10.

Posted on July 8, 2014 by ofamily

We have these lovely number cards which Cassie from 3 Dinosaurs made for Free Homeschool Deals which we have used a lot with out snap cubes (if you are not sure what snap cubes are check out the link – we … Continue reading →

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I love Pinterest, I love looking through the broads and finding fun things for the kids to do.  I recently came across this post about teaching shapes from Prekinders.com and in the post they had a Geo board and some … Continue reading →

Posted on June 24, 2014 by ofamily | 1 Comment

Ice- cream addition with a bit of help from Thomas and Friends

Posted on June 12, 2014 by ofamily

Pink has never been a fan of ice-cream, it just did not agree with her spd, it was too cold and she hated the texture.  But she is learning to tolerate a lot more these days and is even discovering … Continue reading →

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Giant number line Maths

Posted on June 10, 2014 by ofamily

We have been using number lines quite a bit when we do addition and subtraction so I was trying to think of a fun activity to do around that and I came up blank, until Blue asked if he could … Continue reading →

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