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Barrier games
Barrier games build on children's natural desire to combine block play with small world items.
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Obstacle course
As children move around an obstacle course, adults can model positional language, encourage children to describe their movement themselves and create their own course.
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Mapping
In this activity, children are encouraged to follow familiar and new routes, and to create their own maps.
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Eyfs thinking about: paths and maps
Here are some examples of children's thinking following on from their exploration of the NRICH Paths activity.
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The importance of shape and space in the early years
In this article for EY practitioners, Dr Sue Gifford discusses children's early spatial thinking and how this predicts their mathematical understanding and achievement.
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Water, water ...
This task provides a real-life context for children to compare capacities in order to choose the biggest container for their lemonade.
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Two halves
This task provides children with the opportunity to investigate halving different shapes and check that they have made two halves.
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Tubes and tunnels
When investigating these tubes, children will have the opportunity to practise using everyday language to talk about length, size and position.
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Timing
In this task, children will practise using a variety of timers to work out how many items they can put into a jar before the time finishes.
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The spring scale
Using the spring scale in this activity provides an engaging context in which children can explore and discuss the weight of different objects.