You can make maths much more fun if you mix in some songs and imaginary play. Today we’ve been counting backwards and singing ‘Ten in the Bed’.
First we took a cardboard box and used some fabric scraps to make a bedsheet, pillows and blanket.
Then we made 10 little people and numbered them 1 to 10. With a bit of a squash and a squeeze they all fitted in.
Then it was time for some singing – and lots of giggling as Little rolled her people out of bed. We’ve done an alternative version of this using our sofa as a bed and Big’s favourite teddies to make up the numbers. It’s very funny when you’re 3 to make your teds whizz out of bed!
A great book choice to go with this is Ten in the Bed
And just in case you don’t know the song, there’s a cute pre-school class over on You Tube waiting to sing it to you.
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We’ve always loved that song, but usually change the names to those of our cats, Dadda, Mumma and Princess which always seems to make it more fun
I wonder if this is how Princess learnt to count backwards. We were both very surprised when she started doing it as neither of us had specifically taught her how.
A lovely game
I love this so much! So much, I’m going to share it on my facebook page
http://www.facebook.com/be.a.fun.mum
Thanks Kelly – really pleased you like the idea.
My girls love to play ‘there was 4 in the bed’ in the mornings and we all roll over and out of the bed to get up
What a fantastic resource you have made, I love it. Thanks for linking to We Play, don’t forget to link back too
very cute…
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