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 by Penny Dale, which has beautiful illustrations.
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.
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
https://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…