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Catch-up for Year 1: Key skills from Reception

Shapes and more!

Contents

Activity name Focus

Shapey trail 2-D shapes

Count the sides Match shapes with number tiles

Make a shape 3-D shapes

Copy my pattern Copy and create repeating patterns

Red, yellow, blue Logic puzzle

In a minute! Time (seconds in a minute) Numeral formation

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Shapey Trail You need

• the track below printed out• about a dozen small plastic animals/people or really tiny soft toys• a coin to spin• a counter each to move round the track

How to play

o Place the toys in the middle of the track.o Place your counters on start.o Take turns to spin the coin.o If it lands ‘heads’, move two places forward.o If it lands ‘tails’, move one space forward.o When you have moved, say the name of the shape you have landed on.o If you are correct, you take a small toy.o If you are incorrect, discuss what shape it is, and then move back one

space.o Keep playing.o When you both get back to the start, count your toys. The person with the

most toys is the winner.o Play again, timing yourselves. How fast can you get around the track,

saying the correct shape names each time.


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Shapey Trail

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Count the Sides

You needo the numbered tiles and a pile of coloured counters each.

o Muddle up the tiles and spread them out face down.o Take turns to turn over a tile.

o Read the number and then look at the shapes.o You are looking for a shape with that number of sides.

o If you picked number 4, you have a choice of two shapes.

square or rectangle

o If you picked number 1, you must choose the circle.

circle

o Read the number and then look at the shapes.o Put a counter of your colour beside that shape on the SHAPE PICTURES.

Your aim is to get at least one counter beside each shape on SHAPE PICTURES and three counters beside one of the shapes.

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SHAPE PICTURES



Number Tiles

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Make a Shape

You need o thin card or fat papero template (print next page)o crayons or felt-tipso PVA glue

In advance o Print the templates. Cut these out really carefully.

What to do

o Lay the template on the card.

o Carefully draw round it.

o Lift the template from the page.

o Cut round your drawing carefully

(A child may want an adult to do some of the cutting!)

o Before you fold the shape, decorate each face.

o Fold the shape to make a box.



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Copy My Pattern

You will need

o small objects, e.g. Lego bricks, coloured buttons, painted shells, or beads.

o One of you creates a pattern using the bricks or shells. It must be aregular pattern. You could try this one.

o The other person must continue the pattern.

o Check that they do this correctly.

o Ask these questions.

What colour will the next brick in the line be?

What colour is the brick after that?

And then one after that?

o Lay down the bricks to check if your answers were correct.

Now invent a more complicated pattern and repeat the activity.

Challenge

Try an even more complicated pattern!


What to do


Red, Yellow, Blue

You will need

o nine small objects, three each of three colours. These can be Lego

bricks, counters, beads, painted shells, or any other small colouredobjects. The colours do not have to be red, yellow and blue. They canbe any three different colours!

What to do o You have to place all nine counters on the grid.o You must follow the rules!

RULES

o There must be exactly one yellowcounter in every row and everycolumn.

o There must be exactly one bluecounter in every row and everycolumn.

o There must be exactly one redcounter in every row and everycolumn.

When you think you have done this, find someone else to check!

Is there another, different way, of doing this?

HINT Try to get the middle column in place first.

Then get the middle row in place.





In a Minute!

You will need A stopwatch (most mobile phones have one) A timer, which can accurately time one minute (60 seconds) The number track (see below) Pencils or pens and paper Counters, which can be LegoTM pieces, dried beans, wooden beads or even something edible like raisins!

How to play • Use a stop watch on a phone and with the child, watch it count from

0 seconds to 60 seconds. That is one minute. Notice that as soon asit reaches 59 seconds, it turns to 1 minute!

• Lay the number track where the child can see it.• Both lay out your piece of paper and take up your pen ready to start.• Now set a timer for 1 minute.• You both have to write numbers, starting with 1, and working up to

towards 10. You write as many numbers as you can before the timergoes off – that is in just 60 seconds.

• When the timer pings, stop writing.• Look at each other’s work. Who has written the most, correctly

formed, numbers?• The winner takes a counter.• Play again. First person to collect 3 counters is the winner!

Rules 1. The numbers you write must be easy to read and

correctly formed. So, you MUST start at the top.2. The grown-up must write with the hand they do not

normally write with, e.g. if they are right-handed, theymust right with their left hand. And vice versa.

3. If a number is not well-written, it does NOT count!



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