Natural maths display eyfs

“We are not totally clearing our environment of all resources; this is a learning space for our children. We have to provide safe and secure learning spaces that reflect ‘normal’ for our youngest children. We’ve set up reduced provison, mainly plastic that we can easily clean.”

In the earlier years of my practice I had a commercial number line which was very colourful and pretty. This fall I wanted to involve the children through a math investigation. I began with a number line to five using nature objects like seashells, beach stones and sticks but only to the number five. We collected the objects together then sorted and counted. My intention was to add number groupings five at a time as their numeracy grew but a cougar moved into our forest and I lost the…