Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Week One Unifix Cubes Problematised Situation Explicit Introduction to Using Tens Frames Make to Ten
Mental Routine Rainbow Facts
Week Two Rainbow Facts Video and Match Up Cards Rainbow Facts Bingo Play-it-to-10! Activity Rotations
Tens Frames
Week Three Rainbow Fact Memory Group Bingo Rotations Rotations Rainbow Facts Video and
Match Up Rotations
Week Four Rotations Rotations Rainbow Facts Video and Guess My Rainbow Fact Rainbow Facts Poster
Revisiting Poster and Video
Week Five Rainbow Facts Poster Conferences Rainbow Facts Class Bingo

Sequence of Learning Experiences

Week Lesson Focus/es Daily Learning Experiences Resources Assessment

One Trusting the Monday: Unifix Cubes Mental Routine Monday Observation and
count. questioning
Ask students to grab 12 Unifix cubes and place them in front of them. Unifix cubes (12 for
during mental
Establishing basic each student)
How might you arrange your cubes to make it easy to count them in 2s? routines,
knowledge and
If you put your cubes into three groups, how many might you have in each group? rotations and
skills.
class floor work.
I have made two groups that you all of my 12 cubes. You have to ask me questions
to find out how many I have in each group.
Ask students to take 2 cubes away so they are left with 10 cubes.
Ask them to arrange them in ways that make it easier to know straight away that
there are 10 without doing a count all.
Students engage in a think, pair, share to discuss with a buddy how they have
arranged their cubes.
Students engage in a class discussion and sharing session about what they have Tuesday
found. Paper
Students should begin to recognise patterns of rainbow facts. They will also be using Own example
their knowledge about subitising patterns and knowledge of doubles.
Wednesday
Tuesday: Problematised Situation
Natural Maths
Ask students to draw 10 representations of 2 different things, objects, animals, etc. Rainbow Facts
Emphasising what might this look like? Multiple answers, 9-1, 8-2, 7-3, 6-4. Poster
Students will engage in a sharing circle to conclude the lesson and share their ideas,
thinking and findings.
Wednesday: Explicit Introduction to Rainbow Facts
Introduce students through explicit instruction to the Natural Maths Rainbow Facts
poster.
Beginning with the outside layer of the rainbow and follow each rainbow band from
left to right to find the rainbow pairs that add up to 10.
Ask students to identify what is the other number in the rainbow pair that goes with
6/7/8/9/10.
Play Guess My Rainbow Pair to familiarise students with the position of the rainbow Thursday
pairs.
Ten frames
Students may ask questions such as;
Counters (10 for
 Is your rainbow pair near the middle of the rainbow? each student)
 Is your number on the left less than four?
Inference about the patterns. It goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 the numbers on the left
get bigger as the numbers on the right get smaller. Friday
Thursday: Using Tens Frames Pictures of dice
Using counters and ten frames to demonstrate the different ways to make ten. Smartboard
Emphasising that each rainbow fact adds up to a total of ten.
I will demonstrate an example to students first.
I could call out one number of a rainbow fact and then students need to use the tens
frames to demonstrate the other part of the rainbow fact.
Friday: Make to Ten
Have pictures of dice on the smartboard, students need to work to identify and
group two dice together to make 10 altogether. Students will engage in a think, pair,
share to share their ideas and thoughts with others before having the opportunity to
group the dice on the board for the whole class to see.