Number Work
The children have been exploring numbers. They have been learning to:
- organise and categorise objects;
- select a small number of objects from a group when asked;
- make comparisons between quantities;
- use some language of quantities, such as ‘more’ and ‘a lot’;
- know that a group of things change in quantity when something is added or taken away;
- recite and recognise numbers;
- know that numbers identify how many objects are in a set;
- represent numbers using fingers, marks on paper or pictures;
- match numeral and quantity correctly;
- compare two groups of objects, saying when they have the same number;
- separate a group of three or four objects in different ways, beginning to recognise that the total is still the same;
- estimate how many objects they can see and check by counting them;
- use the language of ‘more’ and ‘fewer’ to compare two sets of objects;
- find the total number of items in two groups by counting all
- of them.