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.

Use these reading resources in conjunction with the reading assessment booklet to assess rhyme and alliteration.

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.

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.

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

8 play dough mats to reinforce the concept of pattern. Children use play dough to make spots or stripes to decorate the pictures. The small inset picture shows the illustration as it should look once the spots and stripes have been added. There is a party hat, bee, ladybird, pair of socks, dog, face and t-shirt that need decorating. Children will develop fine motor control as they manipulate the play dough into spots and stripes.

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.

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.

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.

A pack of sorting activities to teach children how to sort. Children sort objects onto the cute jar sorting mats. The jars have different lids to specify or depict the criteria used. You can also choose your own criteria using the blank lids provided. You can either use real objects or cut out and laminate the buttons and socks provided. There are also a number of worksheets which the children can use to demonstrate their understanding of sets of objects. These slowly increase in complexity.

This booklet encourages children to use words ending in ‘ing’ with lots of practical activities and action pictures to discuss. There are several different pictures giving children lots of opportunities to consolidate their understanding of verbs ending in ‘ing’. In the booklet there are also ideas for lots more practical activities and advice on how to complete them.

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.

This handy booklet has a range of activities to assess children’s ability levels in Mathematics in relation to the ‘Development Matters 2021’ document. Each activity is linked to a development matters statement up to and including the Early Learning Goal statement. It allows you to assess where children are at in relation to Mathematics when they start school and at different times throughout the year to demonstrate progress. It will also be useful to assess the ability of children entering Year 1 and for SEN children who may not be able to access their own curriculum. The gaps in knowledge displayed in the booklet identify children’s next steps and also inform your planning in terms of delivery.

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.

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 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

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.

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.

An assessment booklet for reading based on the new Development Matters 2021 document. There are questions and activities for the children to complete linking to the criteria in the document. Download the free reading assessment resources to use with the assessment.

This booklet supports children with understanding positional language in, on and under. The book is made to be very interactive with movable pictures which the children can use to follow the instructions given. Children remove the correct picture and put it in the correct place. There are several different pictures with lots of different possibilities for instructions giving children lots of opportunities to consolidate their understanding of positional language. In the booklet there are also ideas for lots more practical activities and advice on how to complete them.