This simple-to-prepare activity will provide your students with lots of fun as they practise their ordinal numbers. Individual students can sequence the flies in the correct order, or small groups can use fly swats to swat different numbers that are called out.
Provide small groups with fly swats to add the hands-on element to this game.
Name, represent and order numbers including zero to at least 20, using physical and virtual materials and numerals
Establish understanding of the language and processes of counting by naming numbers in sequences, initially to and from 20, moving from any starting point
Compare, order and make correspondences between collections, initially to 20, and explain reasoning
Describes mathematical situations using everyday language, actions, materials and informal recordings
Uses objects, actions, technology and/or trial and error to explore mathematical problems
Uses concrete materials and/or pictorial representations to support conclusions
Counts to 30, and orders, reads and represents numbers in the range 0 to 20
Reads numerals and represents whole numbers to at least 20