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Maths this half term
This half term in Nursery, e are focusing on block play and learning how to measure and compare the world around us.
Through interactive play, building towers, and exploring different objects, your children are developing key vocabulary and concepts around:
Size: Exploring big vs small, huge vs tiny.
Length: Comparing long vs short.
Height: Discovering tall vs short.
Capacity: Experimenting with full, empty, nearly full, and half-full.
Building with blocks allows children to naturally experiment with shape, spatial awareness, balance, and size comparisons as they decide which block fits best!
🏡 Easy Ways to Practise at Home
You don't need special equipment to support your child’s maths learning at home! Here are a few quick and fun activities you can try together:
Bath Time Water Play (Capacity): Use cups, empty plastic bottles, or containers of different sizes during bath time. Talk about which container holds the most water, which is empty, and which is full.
Toy Tower Challenge (Height & Block Play): Challenge your child to build the tallest tower they can using LEGO, wooden blocks, or even stacked plastic cups. Measure who can build a tower taller than a favourite teddy bear!
Sock & Shoe Sorting (Length & Size): While doing laundry, line up different family members’ socks or shoes. Ask your child to find the longest sock or the smallest shoe.
Pantry & Snack Exploration (Size): Compare items in the kitchen (e.g. a big apple vs a small grape, or a tall cereal box vs a short tin).
Key words to use at home: Tall, short, long, big, small, full, empty, heavy, light, bigger, smaller, favourite, practise.