Team CM

At group time today we read the story of "Ten Little Dinosaurs" to help with our Mathematical development. The children all held up ten fingers to represent the dinosaurs and then we learnt how to show this using counters on two 5 frames. We learnt to put one counter in each space and fill it up from left to right. We know that we don't need to count on a five frame as we can subitise how many (just say what we can see without any counting). We are practising this and getting really clever at it! 
Then we read the book and we took one counter away each time until the five frames were empty. Each time we spoke about what the noticed and some children were able to say how many were left. I think we have some budding Mathematicians in our nursery! ​