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Cambridge Primary Maths Starter Activities

This document contains a rhyme about five baby elephants going out to play with increasing numbers from one to five. It also includes matching activities for children to practice counting from one to five, such as drawing rings around numbers that correspond to pictures of elephants, matching playing pieces to images of elephants on a game board, and drawing lines between elephants and trees with matching numbers. The activities aim to help children learn numbers, counting, and one-to-one correspondence through engaging rhymes and games.

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Cambridge Primary Maths Starter Activities

This document contains a rhyme about five baby elephants going out to play with increasing numbers from one to five. It also includes matching activities for children to practice counting from one to five, such as drawing rings around numbers that correspond to pictures of elephants, matching playing pieces to images of elephants on a game board, and drawing lines between elephants and trees with matching numbers. The activities aim to help children learn numbers, counting, and one-to-one correspondence through engaging rhymes and games.

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CAMBRIDGE PRIMARY

Mathematics
Starter Activity Book

Name:

Cherri Moseley and Janet Rees


Elephants come out to play
Benjie
One baby elephant went out to play,
All on his own on a sunny day.
Across the field his friend shouted, “Boo!”
And ran to meet him, so now there’s two.
Charlie
Two baby elephants went out to play,
Splashing in puddles on a rainy day.
Another friend shouted, “Hey, don’t forget me!”
She ran to join them, so now there’s three.
Smiley
Three baby elephants went out to play,
Wearing their scarves on a cold, windy day.
Their friend called George was chasing straw,
They ran to join him, so now there’s four.

George
Four baby elephants went out to play,
Down to the river on a very hot day.
Wearing their trunks they all went for a dive,
Playing with Annie, so now there’s five.

Annie
What to do
Share the rhyme with the children, encouraging them to act it out.
Children could shout: “Boo!”, put on imaginary scarves, pretend to
dive or splash in puddles, chase straws.
Model the rhyme with toy elephants or other creatures.

6 Counting forwards to 5 in a rhyme


Count the elephants
Draw a ring around the matching number. Vocabulary
2 3 1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
number,
more, match,
matching, count,
how many?

What to do
Look at each picture with the
1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5 children. Help them to count
the elephants.
Explain that the number tells
them ‘how many’ there are.
4 5 Support the children as they
draw a ring around the
appropriate number for each
picture.
Be aware that children are
simply matching and may
not understand the value of
the number.

1 2 3 4 5 1 2 3 4 5

1 2 3 4 5
Matching numbers 1 to 5 7 7
Match the elephants
Play the game, match the elephants.

8 Matching: one-to-one correspondence


Vocabulary
1, 2, 3, 4, 5, number,
match, matching,
count, how many?

You will need: a pencil and a paperclip


to use the spinner, two different playing
pieces such as counters or buttons

What to do
This is a game for two players or two teams.
Children take turns to spin the spinner to choose an elephant.
They place one of their playing pieces on a matching elephant in
the grid.
Play continues until every elephant has been matched and covered.
If all the pictures of a particular elephant have been matched, the
child misses that turn.
For a more challenging game, children replace one of the other
player’s playing pieces with one of their own.

Further activities
Some children may be able to identify the winner of the game by
comparing the playing pieces on the board.
Each player removes their pieces and matches them, one-to-one,
with the other player’s pieces.
The child with unmatched pieces is the winner.

Matching: one-to-one correspondence 9


Match the elephant to its tree

Match each elephant Benjie


to its tree. 1

Vocabulary
1, 2, 3, 4, 5,
number, match,
Charlie
matching, count,
altogether,
2
how many?

Smiley
What to do
The children draw a line from
each elephant to a tree,
matching the numbers.
The children could count the 3
fruit, to find the value of the
number on the tree.
They may also count the
spots on the dice to begin to
George
recognise the spot pattern.

Annie

10 Matching numbers 1 to 5

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