Targets for pupils in Reception

Help your child with problem solving, reasoning and

numeracy

Autumn 2

By the end of this year, most children should be able to:

• Say one, two, three, four...to twenty

• Count up to objects
Fun activities to do at home
• Use words such more, less, greater, smaller, heavier, lighter to
Dicey counting
compare quantities

Take turns to roll a dice and count back to zero from the
• Find 1 more or less than any number from 1 to 10
number thrown. For example: if you throw a three count down –
• Add two small groups of objects (total 10 or less) three, two, one, zero!

• Count how many objects are left when some objects are taken Build a tower
away
For this game you need a dice and some building blocks or lego.
• Make simple patterns and talk about them
• Take turns
• Name shapes such as circle, square, triangle, rectangle, cube,
cone and sphere • Roll the dice
About the targets

• Use words
These such
targets as over,
show someunder,
of theabove,
things below, on, in,
your child next be
should to, • Collect the number of bricks to build your own tower
beside toto
able describe where
do by the end objects are
of the Reception year.
• The first to 10 wins
Some of the targets are harder than they seem e.g. children
who can count up to 10 may still have trouble saying which
number comes after 5. They may have to start at 1 and count
from there.
For a change, start with 10 blocks or bricks each. Take away the
number on the dice. First to exactly zero wins.

Roll a shape

Cut out 8 shapes. Make 2 triangles, 2 squares, 2 rectangles and

2 circles.

• Take turns to roll a dice and collect the shape that has
that number of sides e.g. roll a 4, collect a square.

• The first to have four different shapes wins.