Taking Our First Steps in Year 1 Maths!

Year 1 have had a brilliant first week in school. We have been working on building our routines, exploring our new learning spaces and working with our friends again! 

It has been lovely to see the children playing so well together and being so enthusiastic about their return to school! This year will be incredibly fun for our Year 1 class and we have already begun our learning! 

This week, Year 1 used their existing learning from Reception in their maths lesson: counting a specific amount from a larger group.

To make sure no numbers were skipped or counted twice, we practiced 1:1 correspondence. This simply means touching or moving exactly one object every time you say one number word aloud.

When children count quickly, their mouths often move faster than their hands! We practiced slowing down into a steady rhythm.

For the very first time, the children worked with a maths partner! Working in pairs helped them practice taking turns, checking each other's work, and talking about how they got their answers.

To finish off each turn, we used a special sentence to help lock the final total into their minds:

"The last number I said was ____, so my total is ____."

'I can count out 3 red cubes and 4 green ones.' Gideon 

'I know that 4 and 1 makes 5.' - Ethan 

Try it at home! Ask your child to fetch you 7 spoons from the drawer or 5 Lego bricks from the box, encouraging them to touch each item as they count and finish with their magic sentence!