Children in Need Counting 5 Spots

An ideal activity to support the celebration of Children in Need Day with a spotty theme - The Great SPOTactular - count the spots.

This is a simple FREE IWB game to develop children’s early sense of number using amounts from 1 to 5. Ideal for modelling and exploring the 5-frame with five spots. (26 slides in length)

How many spots can you see in the 5-frame? Children are invited to click on the matching symbolic number. This game works well as a whole class teaching tool or as a small guided group session. Children could make their own patterns to match those shown using practical resources (i.e., counters or playdough) and use their creativity to design their own representations of different amounts during continuous provision.

An easy to adapt resource to support teaching and learning - children could be asked what is one more or one less than the amount shown in the 5-frame.