Key Stage 1 Numeracy Homework
Reception Number Recognition
"Egg Heads"

What will this game will achieve?
These 'egg heads' can be used in a variety of ways to help your child with sorting skills, memory development, early counting, and number skills to six.

You will need:

                                                       
How do you play?

Memory Game
• Look closely at each Egg Head with your child, discuss what they are wearing and place them in the egg box.
  
• Now ask your child to close his/her eyes and remove one egg. Hide it in the bag
• Ask your child to open his/her eyes and tell you which Egg Head is missing. Can your child describe the missing egg?
• Repeat this activity with different Egg Heads each time
• As your child becomes more confident, try removing two Egg Heads
  

Sorting Skills
• Using the sorting cards, try sorting the eggs into 2 sets e.g. wearing hats/not wearing hats, wearing blue/not wearing blue.
• Then ask your child to sort the Egg Heads using their own criteria.
  

Early Counting
• When sorting the Egg Heads always count how many are in each set

Number bonds to six
• Put all the Egg Heads in the tray
• Ask your child to count how many there are, then close his/her eyes.
• Remove an egg and hide it in the bag
• Ask your child to open his/her eyes and tell you how many are missing
• Repeat this activity by removing a different number of Egg Heads each time.
• If you child is confident with this you could try recording the sums on paper
  e.g. 5 + _ 6