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Lesson 5: Grobby learns about number 7Through appropriately playful learning experiences, children should be able to develop an awareness that the purpose of counting is to quantify and be able to use a range of counting strategies for a variety of purposes.Learning outcomes%u2022 We are learning to identify the set of 7%u2022 We are learning to count 7 items%u2022 We are learning to write the number 7Talk aboutAsk the children to make a stack of 7 bricks. Ask various children to hold up their stack of 7 bricks and say what their colours are e.g. my 7 are 2 orange, 1 green, 2 yellow, 1 red and 1 light blue.Ask the children to look around the classroom with their maths eyes, to find things that there are just 7 of e.g. there are 7 books on the bottom shelf. There are 7 crayons in the jar. There are 7 tiles in that row.Play with the bricks%u2022 How many ways can you build a 7 brick tower?%u2022 Who can build the fastest 7 brick tower, end on end?%u2022 How many ways can you connect your 7 bricks?Tasks1. Trace over the large 7 with your finger, starting at the dot2. Trace over the 7s. Finish out each row to the end.3. Draw and colour 7 bricks in the boxRhyme timeHeigh Ho and off we go,Into the mountains to dig and blow.We work all morning, we work to eleven,Then it%u2019s home time, home, to rest all seven.The children stand and line up 7 of their bricks on their ends to represent the 7 dwarfs heading off to work, as they rhythmically chant the little rhyme.Name the seven dwarfs as you line them up: Bashful, Doc, Dopey, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy and Sneezy.Pose and tell number stories: It was Friday. Sneezy was feeling unwell and stayed in bed. How many dwarfs went up the mountain? (Illustrate the story using bricks).12