Planning Sheet

Planning for Teachers

* Example medium term planning of one subject for one week*

National curriculum P level descriptors 1-8

Class:

Term:

Teacher:

Teaching assistant(s):

Subject: Numeracy (1 hour per session)

Theme: Traditional Stories and Rhymes

Curriculum links: Science, literacy, Art, Design Technology, ICT

Week beg.

Focus

Learning objectives

Children should:

Activity (see weekly plan for detail of introduction, group activities, plenary)

Learning outcomes

Children

Number and the number system–

Counting and numbers

P1(i) encounter activities

P1(ii) focus attention on objects

P2(i) show interest in objects

P2(ii)react to new activities

P3(i) observe results of own action with interest

P3(ii) anticipate known events

P4 show an interest in counting activities

P5 join in with number rhymes

P6 make sets of three

P7 recognise differences in quantity

P8 estimate a small number and check by counting

This concept will continue for two weeks using one number each day and rhymes and activities to go with that number including all the following

Join in number songs and rhymes.

Recite the sequence

Ordering numbers – 1, 2, 3

Writing numbers

Memory game

Zero – all gone

Problem solving – object permanence, 1 to 1 correspondence

Matching

Counting on and back, in ones, in twos

P1 (i) use their senses to listen to ticking clocks, explore fruits etc.

P1(ii) briefly listen to a ticking clock

P2(i) watch the clock as it ticks and then as the alarm goes off

P2 (ii)show surprise when the alarm goes off

P3(i) with help turn the key to make the alarm go off – show excitement when it does go off

P3(ii) know that the alarm is going to make a noise and prepare for it

P4 hold a frog and jump into ‘pond’ when it is their turn – with help

P5 know when it is their turn to jump into ‘pond’

P6 put the fruit into sets of three

P7 know that we have two eyes, one nose, two hands etc

P8 look at the pictures on the counting cards, guess how many then count them to check

Resources:

PowerPoint presentation, rhymes 1 -10, clocks, musical instruments, clock to fill in, ribbons, fabrics, papers, parts for the body worksheet, a variety of gloves / mittens, mittens worksheet apples / fruits, the apple

worksheet, frogs to laminate, cards to 5, memory game cards.

(click on words underlined to go to that resource or lesson plan)

Points to note:

Performance descriptions from P4 – P8 are from

‘number’

Week 5 Weekly Plan – Numeracy Class
Learning Outcomes	Day	Oral / Mental starter	Whole class teaching	Individual activities	Plenary
Number and the number system Children	Mon	Watch the PowerPoint presentation and say the rhyme Hickory Dickory Dock - the whole rhyme	Show clock – picture or real thing – talk about the numbers – count forwards and backwards. Show the o’clocks on a clock that can be turned	1 – listen to the ticking of different clocks and the alarm rings Use musical instruments to beat the tempo of the ticking 2- colour in the picture of the rhyme write one o’clock underneath 3 –put the numbers to 12 in the spaces on the clock, make it ‘say’ o’clock times	Sing Hickory Dickory Dock to the music – children join in as many verses as they can
will count and use numbers	Tues	The rhyme ‘Let's go walking two by two’ Do the actions of the rhyme as you say it	Count in twos together as far as you can. Which things do you have two of – arms, hands, feet, eyes, perhaps sisters, cars, etc.	1 – pull through closed hands twice various ribbons, fabrics, papers etc. count one, two 2 –go through heads and shoulders song and find out which parts are in twos - count 3 – fill in the parts of the body worksheet	Play an I spy game of two things / a pair of things beginning with
Resources are shown in the medium term planning week 5	Wed	Say the rhyme Three little Kittens using all the verses. How many mittens for three kittens? How many thumbs / fingers?	Have a variety of gloves / mittens – sizes, fabrics, those that stretch. Sort for people’s hands – long / short, count the number of thumbs etc for ? number of people	1 – try on a variety of gloves, sometimes too big or little 2 – Match the mittens worksheet 3 – How many mittens worksheet (pairs)	Say the rhyme again – children join in – how many mittens for one, two three kittens
	Thurs	Four red apples – sing say the rhyme – have apples ready to count use other fruits and change the words	Count in twos together as far as you can. Have several apples / fruits – put in sets of two – how many are needed for each to have two	1 –explore different fruits using senses – feel, smell, see, taste 2 – make sets of four of a variety of objects including the apples and other fruits 3- write the numbers in the apple worksheet	Cut the fruits into quarters counting to four each time – say this is half / quarter as it is done
	Fri	Five little speckled frogs – sing and say rhyme giving 5 children a laminated frog which they jump into the pool with –use zero	Use cards to 5 showing different numbers for children to recognise, count on from, add two of the numbers together etc.	1 – use water play and sing the rhyme changing the words to go with objects to drop in water 2 – use ‘lily pads’ (green paper) and frogs with 1:1 correspondence, show and say numbers 3 – play a memory game of 2 lots of cards to five and 10 frogs – turn over, find pairs	Sing song again – different children have the frogs. Count frogs again to five- start zero

Learning Outcomes

Day

Oral / Mental starter

Mon