4 & 5-year-olds: how you can help me with my learning Mathematics • Name small groups of things, this helps me to ‘subitise’ (instantly seeing how many without counting) e.g. “There are 3 slices of pizza left.” • Ask me to count out a number of things from a group, e.g. “Could you get me 6 eggs?” • Make number snap or bingo with numerals and pictures. Match the numerals with the right amount. • Make patterns with objects, e.g. buttons or shells. Such as ‘big, small, big…’ Make a mistake and talk with me about how to fix it. Understanding the World • Share photos and tell stories about my family, both past and present. • Take me to places of worship and places of local importance in my community. • Let me help you cook. Talk about changes such as ‘melting’ or ‘boiling’
Literacy • Keep reading with me everyday. Share books that let me see people of different races, cultures, gender and religion. • Play games where you give me an instruction like “Can you h-o-p?” I have to put the sounds of the word together. • Let me make up stories – you could write them down for me and we could act them out. • Make a photo book of our family or when we went to the park and let me write my own words in it.
Expressive Arts & Design • Sing and dance with me when we hear our favourite songs. Encourage me to make up my own routine. • Give me string, scissors, glue, sticky tape and boxes to make a model.
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