ADULT-LED
Reinforce children's number awareness through an activity using their hands and fingers.
Planned learning intention
To make up the same total (five or ten) in different ways.
Adult:child ratio 1:4
Resources
Disposable transparent polythene gloves, mutiples of any small objects that will fit into the fingers of the gloves, for example, beads, crayons, buttons, small pencils, bricks and plasticine rolls.
Preparation
Prepare two sets of objects from which each child can choose.
Step by step
* Ask the children to count how many fingers ther are on their glove.
* Ask them to select objects from the two groups, for example, three beads and two buttons.
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