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Lesson 11: Make, draw and count sets to 7 with GrobbyThrough appropriately playful learning experiences, children should be able to use a range of counting strategies for a range of purposes.Learning outcomes%u2022 We are learning to create sets of objects that have 1 to 7 items in them%u2022 We are learning to count sets up to 7%u2022 We are learning that numbers can be distinguished according to their quantitative valueMaterials - option 1A picture of a farm scene, either as a large poster or a picture displayed on the interactive whiteboard. The displayed scene should have quantities of animals for counting, without touching. Talk about the picture. Count objects, plants, birds, animals and insects that appear in your picture.Materials - option 2Draw and cut out a farm scene: a farmer, a tractor, 7 rabbits, 6 sheep, 5 pigs, 4 cows, 3 hens, 2 goats and 1 horse or whatever combination of pictures are at hand.Once you have assembled all your images, gather the children on the floor for the telling and illustration of a story that goes something like this:It is a busy time on Fairfield Farm. Farmer Tom has a lot of feeding jobs to do today. He brings oats to Oscar, the old farm horse. At the henhouse, he throws corn to his 3 laying hens. Behind the hen house is the pigsty where he pours a big bucket of slops for the 5 pigs to gobble up. Beside and to the right of the pigsty is the little pen where 2 billy goats are eating leaves off a small, very bare looking tree. Next, he heads to the cow house where he throws some hay into the racks for his 4 Belted Galloway cows to eat. Finally, to feed his 6-prize sheep, he takes his little tractor and a big bag of sheep nuts up the laneway to the top field where Puffball and the rest of the flock are always waiting by the gate. Sheep love their tasty nuts. Just beyond the sheep, further into the field, playing in the autumn sunshine, is the rabbit family - all 7 of them. Farmer Tom smiles, he loves his farm and all the animals.Allow children to take turns retelling the story and placing the pictures. Once the picture scene is displayed, perform various counts of the objects.Tasks1. Tell and retell the story2. In their groups of 4, children set out and replace each set of animals with a set of bricks e.g. 4 represent the cows, 7 the rabbits. Children take turns to retell the story, with the freedom to embellish if they so wish e.g. Oscar is a piebald pony, with lovely brown and white markings.3. Children finish the count and record the total for each animal24