Cover lesson · Health and Well-being · Year 1 · Intermediate

Adding fruit on a fruit kebab

LNF: Numeracy → Understanding the number system helps us to represent and compare relationships between numbers and quantities → Calculation

Cover teacher: you need no subject knowledge

What this practises: adding two groups to find how many altogether, one more and one less, the different ways to make 10, and taking away to find how many are left. Every question uses pictures of fruit kebabs, a healthy snack, so pupils can count.

Print: the activity sheet (page 2 of this file), one per pupil. Pupils need a pencil and red and green colouring pencils. Counters or cubes help pupils who need to move objects. No computers are needed.

Run: 5 min Step 1, count to 10 in Welsh and English · 12 min Step 2, Task 1 · 10 min Step 3, Task 2 · 15 min Step 4, Task 3 · 10 min Step 5, Task 4 · 8 min Step 6, all the ways to make 10. Total 60 minutes.

Collect: the activity sheets. Quick checks: Task 1 3 + 2 = 5, 4 + 3 = 7, 2 + 6 = 8, 5 + 5 = 10; Task 2 7 and 8; Task 3 any 4 different pairs that make 10, with the colouring matching the numbers; Task 4 5 and 4.

Teacher script

Read the words after Say aloud.

  1. 5 min Count to 10. Say: “A fruit kebab is a stick with pieces of fruit on it. It is a healthy snack. Let’s count to 10 on our fingers, first in English, then in Welsh.” Count together: un, dau, tri, pedwar, pump, chwech, saith, wyth, naw, deg. Then count back from 10 to 1 in English.
  2. 12 min Task 1: how many altogether? Hand out the sheet. Say: “Look at kebab a. Count the strawberries with me: 1, 2, 3. Write 3 in the first box. Now the grapes: 1, 2. Write 2. How many altogether? Count them all: 5. Write 5. 3 add 2 equals 5.” Pupils do b, c and d. Ask: “Can you count on from the strawberries instead of starting from 1 again?”
  3. 10 min Task 2: one more, one less. Say: “Draw 1 more grape in the empty space. How many now? 1 more than 6 is… 7.” Then: “Gwen ate 1 strawberry. Cross out 1. How many now? 1 less than 9 is…”
  4. 15 min Task 3: make 10. Say: “Each kebab has 10 spaces. Colour some red and the rest green. Then count the red, count the green, and write the number fact. Try to make every kebab different.” Ask as you walk round: “You made 7 red. How many green? Does it make 10?”
  5. 10 min Task 4: how many are left? Say: “Dai had 8 grapes. He ate 3. Cross out 3. Count the ones that are left.” Then read b aloud.
  6. 8 min All the ways to make 10. Say: “Tell me one way you made 10.” Write each answer on the board in order: 1 + 9, 2 + 8, 3 + 7… Ask: “Have we found them all? What pattern can you see?”

Activity sheet · Health and Well-being · Year 1

Adding fruit on a fruit kebab

Name: Class: Date:

1. How many altogether?

strawberry   grape

Count the strawberries. Count the grapes. How many pieces of fruit altogether?

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2. One more, one less

a. Draw 1 more grape on the end of this kebab. How many now?

b. Gwen ate the last strawberry. Cross out 1. How many now?

3. Make 10

Every kebab has 10 pieces. Colour some red for strawberries and the rest green for grapes. Make each kebab different. Write the number fact.

+ = 10
+ = 10
+ = 10
+ = 10

4. How many are left?

a. Dai had 8 grapes. He ate 3. Cross out 3. How many are left?

b. Seren had 10 strawberries. She ate 6. How many are left?