Parents+and+Curriculum

Parents and Curriculum.

Choose a number for the week, e.g. 2. Encourage your child to look out for this number all the time. Can your child see the number 2 anywhere? - on pages in a book **in the street** - on doors - on car number plates - on buses Find two apples, toys, spoons, straws, sweets, etc. Make patterns, such as two knives, two forks, two spoons, two knives, two forks, two spoons… Practise writing the number 2. in shop windows and labels __Choose a different number each week__ Practise counting. Start at 5, and count on from there to 11. Start at 9, count back from there to zero. Choose a different starting number each time. Ask your child to help you sort a food cupboard out, putting **heavier** items on the lower shelf and **lighter** items on an upper shelf. Teach your child any number rhymes or songs that you know, particularly ones that involve holding up a number of fingers, like //Five little speckled frogs.// Practise them regularly, with actions. For this game you need a dice and some building blocks or lego bricks. Take turns. Roll the dice. Collect the number of bricks to build your own tower. The first to 10 wins! For a change, start with 10 blocks or bricks each. Take away the number on the dice. First to exactly zero wins. Cut out 12 shapes. Make 3 triangles, 3 squares, 3 rectangles and 3 circles. Take turns to roll a dice and collect a shape that has that number of sides, e.g. roll a 4, collect a square. The first to have four different shapes wins. If you can name each shape you go first next time! Draw a row of six big coloured spots. In turn, one player closes his or her eyes. The other player hides some of the spots with a sheet of paper. ♦ The first player looks and says how many spots are hidden. ♦ Try with other numbers of spots, e.g. five or seven
 * Supporting your child in early Maths**
 * at home** - in the kitchen
 * while out shopping** -on shelves
 * Counting**
 * Cupboard maths**
 * Rhymes**
 * Build a tower**
 * Roll a shape**
 * Spot the difference**