This maths assessment allows you to assess your nursery children’s progress more formally. The assessments can either be done using practical adult lead activities or through observation and recorded in the booklet. Each question links to the new Development Matters document 2021 and will give you a good indication of which areas your children need to do more work on. The booklet assesses children’s ability to subitise, recognise numbers, use positional language, count etc. They need to be accompanied with the free practical maths resources.

Teach your children number bonds to 5 and a range of other mathematical skills with this activity pack. Encourage your children to count, understand one to one correspondence and composition of number with these cute dogs.

This Comparing Numbers pack consists of 4 different activities and 12 pages to support children in comparing quantities and introduce them to the vocabulary of more and fewer. The activities are as follows: Add more/fewer peas to the plate. You could be really specific and add one more, two more, or one fewer etc. Each player has a row of houses. Roll a die and deliver parcels or letters as you move along the row (use cubes as parcels or pieces of card for the letters). Don’t forget to talk about who has delivered more or fewer. The winner is the first one to deliver a parcel or letter to every house. Sort the buttons into two jars according to whether there are more or fewer. Order the picture cards from fewer to more

This pack consists of a game to support counting and number recognition with the use of a vertical number line. There are two types of game boards both of which have two ability levels. There is a tower and a train track game board, one of which goes up to number 8 and one which goes up to number 18. Each player has a board and either a princess card or a train card depending on which game is being played. At the simplest level children take it in turns to roll a die and move that number of steps. The first one to reach the top of the tower or the end of the train track is the winner and win a prince card or train ticket respectively. Alternatively, for those children who are a little bit more advanced with their understanding of number, they can play the game using the instruction cards. Children take it in turns to select an instruction card from the top of the pile. They follow the instructions according to what the card says e.g. ‘go to number 4’, ‘2 more’, ‘1 less’, etc. Again, the first one to get to the end of the number line is the winner. For those children that are ready, there are more and less worksheets for them to complete with a vertical number line down the side of the page to support in finding the answers. There are also vertical number lines that can be cut out and laminated and used to support with other number activities. Also in the pack, there are numbered clothes that can be cut out and laminated and used for ordering on a washing line. The clothes can either be ordered or the children could find missing numbers on the washing line that is partly made.

This pack introduces children to repeating patterns in a number of ways. Children can complete the repeating patterns on the coats of the very cute dachshunds/sausage dogs, progressing to designing their own repeating patterns. There is a cat picture full of patterns for the children to identify and colour. There are pattern cards which feature a whole range of objects to demonstrate the diverse number of ways in which patterns can be made. Children can use these to find and match repeating patterns as well as make their own patterns.

Over 60 signs to decorate your outdoor area. They include mini beasts which are either ready made or for the children to colour which can be added to different places in the garden. Bug hotel and mini beast signs which include a question about the mini beast. Mud kitchen signs, car number plates, numbers and signs for your water play. Simply cut out and laminate to brighten up any outdoor area.

There are 12 cards each with a picture on the front and a rhyme on the back. Use the nursery rhyme cards to make a song sack. Pick out a card, guess the rhyme from the picture and sing the song. The Nursery Rhymes include: 5 Little Speckled Frogs, The Wheels on the Bus, Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star, Incy Wincy Spider, I’m a Little Teapot, Dingle Dangle Scarecrow, Old MacDonald had a Farm, Hickory Dickory Dock, Doctor Foster, Miss Polly had a Dolly, 5 Currant Buns, 5 Little Monkeys

This pack provides everything you need to support your children in learning about estimation. It includes vocabulary, signs and worksheets to create an estimation station. There is also estimation homework to reinforce the concept at home. Cut out flaps allow you to cover the jars to ensure that the children only see the buttons briefly before they make their estimation.

A play dough recipe for the perfect play dough every time - no more play dough disasters! If you want to make the play dough with the children use the illustrated guide in order that they may follow the instructions. Once the play dough is made use the face play dough mats to decorate with features - eyes, nose, mouth, hair, eyebrows, teeth, glasses etc. Teach specific techniques using the play dough cards. Children can develop and refine their skills as they are challenged to make a sausage, spiral, bowl, cube, sphere and flat shape. They can then use these shapes to make more sophisticated decorations.

This pack of simple addition activities is perfect for the winter with it’s cute robins and snow covered holly branches. It consists of simple addition questions with pictures to support the calculation and a number line to help with number recognition and the writing of numerals. The questions get slightly more complex but all involve numbers to 10. There are a number of pages to support the children with counting on along with numbered snow balls to order and a bird house to add your own robins to.

A variety of Christmas activities to develop a range of important skills - cutting skills, number ordering and formation, writing, pattern making etc. Introduce your Christmas elf with the elf letters and say goodbye to them when they leave the certificates behind after they have gone. Children are given the opportunity to cut and make Father Christmas and elves, colour Christmas pictures, write Christmas lists and so much more.

The digraph activity pack consists of 8 pages of worksheets for the following digraphs - ‘sh’, ‘ch’, ‘th’, ‘qu’, ‘ng’ and ‘nk’. On each of the worksheets children need to use 3 different colours to practise the letter formation in the large letters. There is a set of smaller digraphs for children to practise the letter formation. Children need to look at the pictures as some have the focus sound of the sheet in them and some of them don’t. Once children identify the pictures that have the sound in them they need to join them to the digraph in the middle of the page. Finally, they need to circle the digraph in the word. The final two sheets have a number of pictures with different digraphs in them. Children need to decide which digraph they can hear when they say the name of the picture and circle it from a choice of three.

The Little Dots Activity Pack can be used alongside the book ‘The Little Dots’ by Alison Flanagan and available on Amazon. There are 20 pages of display posters and worksheets that will support children with instant number recognition and subitising. There are display posters of each of the characters 0 to 5 in two sizes - A4 and half A4. Add them to a display of the Little Dots for the children to have as a visual reference throughout the day and during math’s activities. They could also be used for a variety of games both within and around the classroom. Along with those there are sheets to encourage children to match numbers, write numbers, order numbers and much more.

The Ten Frame Printables pack consists of 10 pages of worksheets which support early counting skills in a fun and imaginative way. There are 2 five frame and ten frame worksheets where children need to identify the number of spots. As very young children might find it difficult to write numbers they are given a choice of three numbers and have to circle the correct one. This way, the children can concentrate on their number recognition and subitising skills without the need to form numbers. There are ten frames where children have to draw the correct number of spots and robots where children need to match dot patterns to the correct number. Each worksheet will help to reinforce children’s understanding of number.

This activity pack will support children in recognising, ordering, counting writing and making sets of 1 to 3 in a practical and fun way. There are 7 pages and 5 different activities: Place different windows on the caravans. Add the correct number of people to the caravan. Order the numbered ice-creams or put the correct number of ice-creams on the numbered cone. Practise writing the numbers 1, 2, and 3. Circle the sets of items using the correct colours. Add the correct number of missing parts to the pictures

Cut out and laminate these resources to use in conjunction with the Nursery Maths Assessment booklet. There are shapes to identify, objects to order by height, length, weight and capacity. You may have real objects that you can use but these can be used as an alternative if not. There are also cards to make a pattern and an enlarged picture of the repeated pattern in the booklet to allow children to see it more clearly. Again, if you have real objects that will do the same job then they can be used instead.

These beginning writing sheets give children the opportunity to practise their letter formation. At the beginning of each sheet there is a sentence for children to circle the words in order to draw their attention to finger spaces and what a word is. There is also the opportunity for children to write simple words, either beginning with the sound or with the sound in it. There are 26 sheets, one for each letter of the alphabet.

There are 26 letter formation sheets, one for each letter of the alphabet. Children practise their letter formation and attempt to write a word that either begins with the letter or has the letter in it. The children then have space to write a sentence about the picture. There is also a sentence at the top of each sheet and children need to circle the words to draw their attention to finger spaces and to develop their understanding of what a word is.

A 10 page pack of animal five frames. Blank and numbered five frames to reinforce children’s understanding of number. Dog five frames with different numbers of bones to support instant recognition of quantities and subitising activities. Vertical five frames to allow children to see different arrays of number and five frames to support number formation.

20 pages of part-part-whole activities with numbers up to 5. Teach children simple addition and their number bonds to 5 with these part-part-whole activities. The printed sheets can be used with counters, or spots can be drawn on once laminated. There are blank part-part-whole tortoise mats so that you can set your own problems. Children will become familiar with number sentences as they match them to the correct part-part-whole tortoise mat.