What's included in the Fact Families - The Eight Facts Adult-Led Practical Activities resource and why is it useful?

Year 1 Fact Families - The Eight Facts Adult-Led Practical Activities resource provides planning for setting up tasks using everyday classroom objects. There are two main activities which match the questions on the Varied Fluency resource. The second Why not try... page provides three extra opportunities for children to engage in the learning.

Each activity has Core, Support and Stretch questions which have been carefully designed to help you meet each child where they are at, to ensure progress for every child, not just the average child. These questions can be adapted to suit the needs of individual learners. Each practical activity covers how to represent and use number bonds and related subtraction facts within 10.

This resource includes:

Fact Families - The Eight Facts Practical Activities

• Activity 1: Autumn Leaf Families. Children sort autumn leaves into two colours and write the fact family.

• Activity 2: Number Piece Families. Children join two number pieces and write all eight facts.

You will need:

• autumn leaves (real or paper) in two colours

• number pieces (1 to 10)

• a large part-whole model and mini whiteboards

Why not try…

• Bead String Split - Children slide beads into two groups to make two parts. They write the fact family.

• Beanbag Buckets -Children throw beanbags into two buckets. They count each bucket and write the fact family.

• Conker Hide - Hide some conkers under a leaf or cup. Children say the whole and the two parts, then build the fact family.

How do our adult-led practical activities resources work?

Our Adult-Led Practical Activities resources work best alongside our teaching PowerPoints, which walk you through the whole lesson along with other lesson resources that you can find on our Fact Families - The Eight Facts lesson page. It can be used alongside or in combination with the teaching PowerPoint.

These practical activities:

• Provide opportunities for teaching, to explore the concept and experience it through concrete resources.

• Are suitable for completion in small groups or whole class teaching.

• Are flexible with a choice of two activities and thinking questions that are ‘levelled’ for the teacher to use with different groups of children.

• Provide extension through the ‘Why not try…’ activities page – these could be done with the children or to set up in the continuous provision area whilst working with groups of children.

This resource is designed to align to White Rose Maths version 3. Classroom Secrets Limited is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or in any way connected to White Rose Education Limited. Our products are original to Classroom Secrets Limited and any reference to White Rose Maths is solely for the purpose of indicating compatibility and does not imply any association with White Rose Education.