Maths mastery for Early Years - number bonds to 5 - with resources

One week’s worth of Year R mastery maths planning informed by the NCETM’s key areas of early mathematics learning and White Rose mastery principles. Printed and digital resources are included to facilitate delivery of the planning although you will also need some practical resources, e.g. duplo, beads, tens frames, Numicon.

The planning is based around a Traditional Tales/Jolly Postman topic however it is written in MS Word so that you can tweak it to suit your curriculum and practical equipment. For example, if you don’t have gems, you could use penny coins; if you were doing Supertato, you could use evil peas in a match box, etc…

A focus group runs throughout the week, rotating through the whole class, and these groups should be mixed ability in line with mastery principles. Notes for supporting less able pupils and extending more able pupils are included in the planning document. The remaining maths activities run all week, with extensions to bring in as the week progresses and the children become more competent at the key idea. Personally, I box up all the resources I’ll need for the week during PPA which makes it easy to bring out and put away the numbertime activities throughout the week.

Included in this resource pack:

• One week’s worth of planning (editable)
• Foldable signs for each activity and extension (pdf)
• Gingerbread men number frames with number sentences for the extensions (editable)
• Hansel and Gretel treasure box recording frames (editable)
• The Jolly Postman PowerPoint activity (editable)
• Big number frame and recording scaffold (editable)
• Number cards 0-5 (editable)

I hope you find it helpful - happy teaching!
Katharine7