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You can count on developing children's abilities to estimate and predict in a project on numbers, says Jane Drake Provide children with exciting opportunities to use numbers by supplementing basic provision across the setting.

Provide children with exciting opportunities to use numbers by supplementing basic provision across the setting.

Adult-led activities

What do you see?

Use the story Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? as a starting point for the project.

Key learning intention

To say number names in order/count reliably up to 6

Adult:child ratio 1:4

Resources

* Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What do you see? by Bill Martin (BBC Consumer Publishing, 7.50) * Box of cars * large-scale number line 1 to 6 (made using a length of wall lining paper) * starters' flag * clipboard pens * copies of data recording sheet (showing numbers 1 to 6 with spaces next to each number for children to make recording marks)

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