Wrapping Parcels
In this activity, children have the opportunity to wrap some toys and to measure and discuss the size of the box or wrapping paper that they will need.
In this activity, children have the opportunity to wrap some toys and to measure and discuss the size of the box or wrapping paper that they will need.
Children explore characteristics of shapes, using everyday and mathematical language to describe them, talk about positions, and solve problems.
As children move around an obstacle course, adults can model positional language, encourage children to describe their own movement and create their own course.
Barrier games build on children's natural desire to combine block play with small world items.
In this article for EY practitioners, Dr Sue Gifford discusses children's early spatial thinking and how this predicts their mathematical understanding and achievement.