Category Archives: maths ideas

Apple Trees and picking apples

Posted on September 3, 2014 by ofamily

We have been speaking about going apple picking for a whole week so when I finally said that we would go today the kids where very excited.   Pink and I  made an apple word tree earlier in the week so … Continue reading →

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Year 2 Maths planning

Posted on August 23, 2014 by ofamily

Our learning tends to be a mixture of structure and child lead.  I let the kids take the lead in areas and topics that they are interested in but I like to do Maths and English in a structured way … Continue reading →

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Our favourite free resources from Twinkl

Posted on August 7, 2014 by ofamily

The last few weeks I have been trying to get a rough plan of what we are going to do in the next 12 months and get a few things printed out and sorted.  I have downloaded a bunch of … Continue reading →

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Usborne First Numbers – brilliant book for Maths

Posted on July 19, 2014 by ofamily

I have picked up some lovely books at our local Oxfam shop recently and one of my favourite finds was this Usborne First numbers ( I have seen these books for sale on ebay and on Amazon). The book covers … Continue reading →

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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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