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Rodd is about to do a test countdown and asks the children to help him count down from 10, checking to see that as he says each number, each light on his rocket goes out.
The lights work so Rodd, in his spacesuit, steps inside the rocket for the real countdown.

He starts to count down but realises he cannot see whether each light goes out as he counts.

So, he asks the children to do the countdown again - and the rocket is launched!

This is from the series: Counting with Rodd Counting with Rodd 2

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Rodd is about to do a test countdown and asks the children to help him count down from 10, checking to see that as he says each number, each light on his rocket goes out. The lights work so Rodd, in his spacesuit, steps inside the rocket for the real countdown.

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A different bedtime story each night. For more stories, try the CBeebies Storytime app.

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Nursery rhymes and songs for learning the numbers 1 to 10.

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Animated video clips of nursery rhymes and songs for learning the numbers 1 to 10.

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Nursery rhyme number collection from nurseryrhymes.org

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Learn numbers and counting with nursery rhymes. List with the best number rhymes.

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Caterpillar Ordering is an interactive ordering and sequencing numbers game, which would complement a minibeasts topic in the classroom.

This maths game has different levels which can be matched to mathematical ability level.

The drag and drop activities help children to order numbers, beginning at a basic level and progressing to more challenging exercises ordering decimal and negative numbers. The sequencing activities help children to recognise number sequences and reinforce their knowledge of multiples.

AGE

5-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Ordering Sequencing Odd and Even

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Caterpillar Ordering - An Ordering and Sequencing Game

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A super game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. You can order numbers up to 100 and complete sequences counting on and back in multiples up to 10.

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Coconut Ordering is a versatile maths game that's been designed to help you gain confidence in comparing and ordering different numbers, including decimal numbers, and metric quantities involving length, mass, capacity and money.

The game has different ability levels; the more difficult levels will help you to expand your experience of decimal notation and how decimals are used to record money and measures. It will also aid your ability to compare different units of measures.

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5-11 Years

SUBJECTS

Maths Number Money Measures

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Coconut Ordering - Comparing Numbers, Prices, Mass, Length and Capacity

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Coconut Ordering is a free, tablet-friendly maths game designed to help children from 5 to 11 years of age compare numbers, money, mass, length and capacity. The higher levels involve metric notation.

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Our Chinese Dragon Game is designed to fit into a Chinese New Year topic. It is an ordering and sequencing numbers game based on the Chinese New Year dragon theme. Check out our Chinese New Year teaching resources and activities.

This maths game has different levels which can be matched to mathematical ability level.

The drag and drop activities help children to order numbers, beginning at a basic level and progressing to more challenging exercises ordering decimal and negative numbers. The sequencing activities help children to recognise number sequences and reinforce their knowledge of multiples.

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5-11 Years

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Maths Ordering Sequencing Odd and Even

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Chinese Dragon Game - Ordering and Sequencing Numbers

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A super game for ordering numbers and for number sequences. You can order numbers up to 100 and complete sequences counting on and back in multiples up to 10.

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ABCya! • Numerical Order | Putting Numbers in Order

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Numerical Order is a fun elementary computer activity for kids at home or school. Children practice number sequence by arranging numbers in ascending order.

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Connect the Dots is a fun way for children to practice counting. There are ten levels with over thirty different puzzles!

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ABCya! * Learn to Count | More Than, Less Than Activity

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ABCya! Counting Fish | Count the number of fish and click the correct number answer. More than and less than prompts help children determine the correct answer. Score report after each stage

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ABCya! • Fuzz Bugs - Counting, Sorting, & Comparing Game for Kids

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Fuzz Bugs is fun activity for Pre K & Kindergarten children to practice counting, sorting, and comparing.

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Birthday Candle Counting is a fun educational game that helps kids practice one-to-one counting from 1 to 10. After completing five questions, kids can decorate their very own birthday cake!

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Ladybird Spots - Counting, Matching and Ordering game

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Three fun counting, matching and ordering numbers games can help early years children learn to count objects and recognise numbers 1 to 10 and also number words to 10.

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Learning to Count up to 15 with Teddy Numbers Interactive Maths Game

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A fun learning to count maths game for early years children by Topmarks. Count out treats to give to teddy.

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Library of games and activities to help your child learn to count and identify numbers

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Count Down Song from 10 to 1 | Tiny Tunes

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@Numberblocks - Counting Backwards! | Learn to Count

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Use math skills and estimate the number of bugs. Help George cath the bugs to find out the answer!

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Learn to count backwards from 10 as we head off into space!

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Help Postman Pat sort all the parcels at the depot.

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Numtums 1-10 collection

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The Cat in the Hat . Hermit Shell | PBS KIDS

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ABCya! * Number Match - Counting and Comparing

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Number Match is a fun flip-card matching game for kids to practice numbers and counting.

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ABCya! * Adventure Man and the Counting Quest

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Join Adventure Man as he races to find the hidden treasure before his arch nemesis, the sinister Mr. Thief gets to it first!

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Sorting Objects and Counting for Kids | Sorting Games for Preschool & Kindergarten | Kids Academy

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Data, Patterns & Sorting Archives - Play of the Wild

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Ordering Leaves from Shortest to Longest

Ordering leaves from shortest to longest is a fun measurement activity to do with young children during the autumn or any time. Children love collecting leaves and they also enjoy comparing them by a range of different attributes such as their colour, length, size, etc. Before teaching children how to measure using standard units such as inches, centimetres, feet or meters, children should have experience comparing lengths so that they can understand what the measurement of length is, and how to think about what is long or short (relatively speaking).

Younger children in nursery or preschool can begin comparing the lengths of two leaves with the introduction of vocabulary, such as long, longer, longest, short, shorter, and shortest. Then you can move on to comparing 3 leaves. Children familiar with stories like Goldilocks and the Three Bears may make links with the terms small, medium, and large or alternatively you could introduce this vocabulary. Then children can move on to comparing lengths of lots of leaves or other objects before beginning to measure them.

Children may not always do a 'fair' comparison. If the objects they are comparing do not start from the same place, you may want to have them compare heights. Then show them how you can put one person on one step and someone else on the step above. Is that a fair comparison?!! No, of course it isn't! Just like when you compare heights, when you compare lengths you also need to have both objects compared from the same point. This will also help when they begin to actually perform measurement and then they will need to start measuring an object at the same point.

What you need

A large variety of leaves

Flat surface (protected from the wind)

Questions to ask

Which is longer? Which is shorter? How do you know?

This is long but which is the longest? Why?

Is that fair (a fair comparison)? Why or why not?

How can you check to make sure?

What they get from it

Children will be able to develop vocabulary related to lengths such as long, longer, longest and short, shorter, shortest. This will also help prepare them for measuring with nonstandard and then standard units. If this activity is done as part of a small group, the children will have the opportunity to develop interpersonal skills such as resolving conflicts and working collaboratively.

Shortest to Longest - Take it further

Once children are in school and have had lots of different experiences comparing lengths, they can move onto measuring with non-standard and then standard units. See my post on making 1 foot and 1 meter (coming soon) with sticks as a way of making children familiar with what these units of lengths look like.

Children can also sort leaves based on their colour or other attributes. See my post on Autumn Leaf Activities for Children.

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Shortest to Longest- Ordering Leaves by Length - Play of the Wild

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Sorting and Matching Games | Basic Math for Kindergarten | Kids Academy

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I've mentioned before that Jonathan (turning 4 in January) is always asking for more "school" to do. But like my other boys, he doesn't always see the value in academic activities. For example, I have seen the idea on Pinterest to tape a small piece of paper with a number on it to a pipe cleaner, and then have your child string that number of beads onto the pipe cleaner. I thought it was a great idea! However, my preschoolers have typically not had much desire to do that sort of activity correctly. This color graphing activity was a big hit! We were able to get in lots of counting practice and conversations about more and less and which group was the greatest. And, it kept him busy for quite awhile, which is always a good thing.

The set up for this activity was super simple. I used a sheet of poster board to make a giant color graph. Then I set out our huge bucket of Hot Wheels cars!

Jonathan got right to work. I thought it was interesting that his approach was to do all of one color first before moving on to the next color.

Whew! All the cars! Well, all the ones that aren't currently in our Wooden Crate Parking Garage or lost under the couch or under someone's bed or put away in the wrong box...

After sorting and graphing all the cars (and seeing that red won with 17 cars), we wondered what else we could sort and graph. Gresham brought down his enormous Safari Toob animal collection and let Jonathan graph those!

Gresham directed this part of the activity. He is such a natural born teacher. It will be interesting to see where this skill takes him in the future.

After lunch, we decided to go on a walk to see what things we could find outdoors to put on our color graph. We have a creek behind our house with plenty of land to explore.

We didn't find anything orange or blue, and our red was a bit of a stretch, but we found some beautiful purple thistles and plenty of other fun treasures. We also saw a large black snake with a yellow belly (EEK!!) but we did not graph that!
What will we graph next? Here are more ideas for graphing:

Crayons/markers/colored pencils

M&M's (see what color is the greatest in number from your package)

Legos

School supplies

Building blocks

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Sorting, Counting, and Graphing for Preschoolers - Frugal Fun For Boys and Girls

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Make a giant color graph, and sort, count, and graph toys or other objects! I've mentioned before that Jonathan (turning 4 in January) is always asking for more "school" to do. But like my other boys, he doesn't always see the value in academic activities.

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Bookbug's Songs and Rhymes

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30. Literacy - Recognising and Writing Your Name

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The SAG-AFTRA Foundation's Daytime Emmy-nominated, Storyline Online, features celebrated actors reading children's books to inspire a love of reading in millions of children worldwide.

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Sing along to favourite nursery rhymes with CBeebies. To enjoy the CBeebies website at its best you will need to have JavaScript turned on. For more help please visit the CBeebies Grown-ups FAQ To enjoy this content you need to update your browser to the latest version.

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Top 20 name activities for teaching children to recognize their names in preschool, pre-k, and kindergarten. Fun hands-on learning activities for kids.

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Name Activities for Preschool

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Play along with the fun and friendly letters of the alphabet.

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ABCya! * Monster Mansion Match - Match Sounds to the Alphabet

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Monster Mansion Match - Alphabet Match is a fun educational game for kids to practice matching letter sounds to beginning word sounds, for example, "A" = "Apple". Letters and their matching words are written on friendly monsters in the windows of the mansion. Kids can play by memory or while seeing the letters and words.

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Alphabats - Rhyming Words is a fun word game that helps students practice phonemic awareness. Kids click on the bats’ bellies to hear the words, then match the words with rhyming sounds. After matching 6 words correctly, players get to help the bats collect fireflies.

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Do you like listening to songs in English? Singing songs is a great way to get better at speaking English and we have lots of great songs for you to enjoy. Listen to songs, print activities and post comments!

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The Nrich Maths Project Cambridge,England. Mathematics resources for children,parents and teachers to enrich learning. Problems,children's solutions,interactivities,games,articles.

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CBeebies Radio - Poetry Playtime - Rhyme

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It's Friday...and that obviously means it's FISH FRIDAY, or as it's known in our house - fish finger Friday (because Five Minute Mum and Five Minute Dad get a takeaway!)

So I thought I'd introduce a wee bit of fishing for you all to try. Have you got magnetic letters? If not, I'd recommend them. We got ours from ELC https://www.elc.co.uk/learning-games/magnetic-letters-lower-case/137253.html#q=magnetic+letters&start=8 for £9 - great stocking filler or little birthday present.

The 5 easy steps to play this game are:

1. Put the magnetic letters in a bowl

2. Make a fishing rod - we used a wooden spoon, some string and a metal bottle opener that I got in a Christmas cracker but you can use ANYTHING. so long as the letters stick!

3. Drop the rod into the bowl and see what comes out. Stick the letter you get to a fridge/radiator/metal tray/tin lid or match them to an alphabet board.

4. As they collect them talk about which letter it is. Can they make the sound? What starts with that letter? Which letter do they think they will catch next?

5. If you like make two rods and take it in turns. Who can catch their name first?

Now you don't HAVE to have magnetic letters to play this game. As long as you have something magnetic you can play it. You can write letters on bits of paper and attach paper clips to them and use the magnet as the fishing rod.

FOR THE LITTLER ONES - For Florence who turns two next week, she caught the letters but instead of recognising letters we matched the colours and put them in groups on the fridge!

So that's it. As always I followed The Golden Rule. https://fiveminutemum.wordpress.com/2018/04/12/the-golden-rule/ I made the fishing rod and put the letters out next to the fridge. As soon as they took an interest we played for five minutes. Then I let them carry on playing with it or toddle off to do something else. That's all they need. A little bit of teaching and attention then back to folding the bloody endless washing!!!

Happy Friday fellow parents or carers of small people. Now for the important question...Chinese...? Indian...? Pizza....? Chippy....?

I am a Mum to two children - Florence, 2 and Ewan, 4. I am a qualified Primary School L3 Teaching Assistant with HLTA experience and specialist training in Speech and Language and supporting children with Dyslexia. But I am currently a Stay at Home Mum #SAHMLife! I really love to think up games and activities for kids that encourage learning in a fun way - but I am also a busy (tired) Mum so I don't want to spend 45 minutes setting up a pretty Pintrest idea only for my kids to not give two shits about it. I like to do fast, silly games that can be done using everyday stuff, so that if my idea totally bombs, it doesn't matter. #easywin - oh and I'm on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter too! View all posts by fiveminutemum

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Do They Rhyme? [Version 1]     (song for kids about rhyming words)

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Rhyming Games Demonstration "A-Rhyming We Will Go"

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Listening skills are important at any life stage, but even more so in the early years.

As young children develop language and communication skills, listening plays a critical role in the learning process.

One of the most effective ways to teach kids to be good listeners, is through daily interactions. As parents and educators, it's essential that we demonstrate appropriate listening behavior. This can include making eye contact, giving the speaker our full attention, and using respectful body language. It's amazing how quickly young children will pick up on these actions, and imitate them.

Listening is a life skill, that we use every day, all day, for our entire lives. These skills, or lack thereof, can impact our relationships, careers, and more.

For preschoolers, practicing their listening skills can be (and should be) fun. Through playful games, like the ones listed below, children will have fun as they learn to listen.

Name that noise

Encourage children to close their eyes, or use a blindfold. Make a variety of sounds around the house or classroom, and ask them to identify the noise they hear. Examples might include, closing a window/door, dropping a book on the ground, tapping on a table, flipping a light switch, or opening and closing a drawer.

I spy

This classic game is beloved by children, and is a wonderful tool for teaching kids to closely listen to details. Give children 3 clues about an object in the room, and have them try to guess what you're describing. For instance, to describe a ball, you might say, "I spy something round, and filled with air, that bounces." Take turns, and allow your child to give clues while you guess what they're describing. My kids love to play this when we're stuck waiting at an appointment or in traffic.

Story time follow-up

Choose a favorite storybook to read with your child. When you're finished reading, ask them various questions about what you just read. What happened in the beginning, middle, and/or end of the story? Have children draw a picture that depicts what they heard, and then ask them to tell you about it. Encourage children to come up with an alternative ending for the story. Talk about similarities or differences between their ending and the original ending in the book.

Monkey hear, monkey do

Produce sound sequences using a variety of items from around the house or classroom (blocks, spoons, pans, pencils) by tapping or banging the objects on the ground or a table. Encourage children to repeat what they hear. Start simple, and increase the difficulty as your child becomes more proficient.

Simon says

This childhood classic is an engaging way to teach children to listen carefully. If you're unfamiliar with the rules of the game, you can find them here. Be sure to take turns, allowing the children to have a chance to test your listening skills as well. My kids think it's hilarious when I mess up and perform an action that I wasn't supposed to.

Becoming good listeners, and learning to actually follow through with the requests, is an ongoing process in early childhood. In most cases, children are not being defiant or disrespectful by ignoring or "tuning out" the things we say to them, but rather, they are so absorbed in whatever it is they are doing, that they simply don't hear us.

With time, along with plenty of intentional and playful opportunities to practice these skills, kids can become better listeners. Such a wonderful character trait, that's sure to benefit them throughout their lives.
How do you help the children in your life work on their listening skills? I'd love to hear your suggestions.

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