Key
understanding/Main
Focus
First Steps in Introduction:
Mathematics:
Number Understand
Whole and Decimal
Numbers, Understand
fractional numbers, Key
Understanding one: We
can count a collection to
find out how many are
in it.
Link to kindy
Guidelines and EYLF:
Learning: Children are
confident and involved
learners:
Develop problem
solving , investigation
Conclusion:
and Inquiry Strategies
Focus Questions
Activities and Management Considerations Evaluation:
Introduction
- Sit at the activity table Activity Focus
- Call one child over to the activity table at a time Questions:
- Main activity:
Main Activity:
Can you count these
- Ask the children to sit down for the activity. dinosaurs?
- Assess the children on the principles of counting Can you count how
- Have ten dinosaur counters lined up in front of the child many dinosaurs?-
making the middle
- Ask the children to count a collection of 8 items that have been placed
item number one.
in a scattered arrangement
- Ask the children to start in the middle, can you count how many How many dinosaurs
dinosaurs?- making the middle item number one. do I have now?
- Place blocks into a line and ask the child, how many dinosaurs do I
have now?
- When the child has finished counting note whether they emphasise the
Conclusion Focus
last number that they count.
Questions
- * remember to praise
- Assess children according to the assessment checklist
- Ask the child to go and get another friend to come and complete the
activity.
Tailored for High and
Low achievers:

As it is the first week of kindergarten, students who are low and high -
achievers have not yet been determined. This assessment will be used to
determine these achievers and further learning experiences will be completed
over the course of the term to cater for these students based on the outcome of
these results.