[eal-bilingual] Help wanted with maths activities

I support in a year 3 Numeracy set once a week and, last year, persuaded

Hi Alison

there are some numeracy tracks on my website (which don't need small cards) 
as well as some other maths games (that do need small cards) - see 
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/gordon.ward2000/

good luck
Gordon


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Alison Mott" <ash-mott at tiscali.co.uk>
To: "'For practitioners involved in teaching pupils from ethnic 
andlinguisticminorities'" <eal-bilingual at lists.becta.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 5:48 PM
Subject: [eal-bilingual] Help wanted with maths activities


>I support in a year 3 Numeracy set once a week and, last year, persuaded
> the class teacher to trial it as a weekly games session.  We made use of
> anything we could find to link in with the objective for the week,
> giving the children the chance to apply the concepts they were learning
> and focusing as much as possible on vocabulary and speaking and
> listening skills.  We made great use of the materials on collaborative
> learning (what a fantastic site!) as well as a number of photocopiable
> games in new and old purchased resource books and (when I had time) I
> made games of my own.  Even so, it was all a bit ad-hoc last year and
> sometimes finding relevant games was difficult - we often resorted to
> using games that didn't quite fit but which the children enjoyed and
> would at least practice the basics such as number bonds etc.  Despite
> this mackling approach the sessions were a great success, the children
> learned loads (including how to share and take turns) and we've decided
> to carry them on for this year's Year 3's.
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> So, if anyone has any games they can share with me I would really
> appreciate it.  The ideal game is one I can photocopy for use with a
> class of 30ish children, with simple instructions they can grasp quickly
> and, where possible, can be played with minimal equipment that we'd find
> in class (dice, counters, unifix cubes etc) rather than needing lots of
> cards photocopying and cutting out (even when we have time to do this,
> with so many children playing them at once the sets often get mixed up
> and it's a nightmare to sort them out again).  I've recently been sent
> some fantastic barrier games by a lady in Ketley which also list the NNS
> objectives each game practices and I'm hoping to put this kind of
> information on all the games we use, to make our sessions more 'formal'
> in the event of us having 'formal' visitors in school.
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> Cheers in advance!
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> Alison Mott
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> Leicestershire EMASS
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