The Teaching Ideas website has lots of maths ideas for early years
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/files/kwaddingsubtracting10.pdf Adding and Subracting (10) – A great PDF to test children on adding and subtracting numbers up to 10. Contributed by Kathy Wilson.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/files/kwaddingsubtracting20.pdf Adding and Subtracting (20) – A great PDF to test children on adding and subtracting numbers up to 20. Contributed by Kathy Wilson.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/files/kwcountingto20.pdf Counting to 20 – A worksheet (PDF) to help children count to 20. Contributed to Kathy Wilson.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/files/kwrecognisingnumbers.pdf Recognising and Writing Numbers – A huge set of worksheets (PDF) dealing with recognising and writing numbers, and much more! Contributed by Kathy Wilson.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/pickaticket.htm Pick a Ticket – Develop your children’s number recognition and listening skills with this tip.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/ladybirddoubling.htm Ladybird Doubling – An easy way of encouraging younger children to think about doubling.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/treasuremap.htm Treasure Map – Use a treasure map to help children to learn about direction.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/introducingshapes.htm Introducing Shapes – A great way of introducing simple shapes to young children.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/files/shapes.pdf Shapes – A PDF worksheet, which asks children to make patterns using a variety of 2D shapes. Contributed by Jane Dovey.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/files/mybookofshapes.pdf My Book of Shapes – A set of four activities for Early Years children, linked to four different shapes. Contributed by Shahida Yunus.
http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/earlyyears/files/symmetricalpictures.pdf Symmetrical Pictures – Use this worksheet to encourage children to think about symmetry. Contributed by Lynn Medland.
Online maths games
Here are some online games that you might want to try with your children that are connected thematically with the story of the Little Red Hen and develop key board and mouse skills
This is a shape matching game that you could use to talk about shape names and colours
http://www.thekidzpage.com/freekidsgames/games/concentration/shapesmatching.html
This is also a matching game but with farmyard animals the pictures are realistic but there are perhaps a little too many choices for younger children to remember
http://www.crickweb.co.uk/assets/resources/flash.php?&file=MatchingPairsFarmyard
This is fun game to play once you have got past the advertisement. Match the eggs of the same colour, work out how to bring them next to one another and watch them hatch
http://www.donutgames.com/play/chicken_and_egg
