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.