When you are out with your child, suggest a “shape hunt”. How many triangles can you fi nd? How many circles?


PlayTime (eg road signs, wheels, steering


wheels, tyres, hubcaps). Remember to look down at the ground (manhole covers) and high up too.


Then have an indoor “shape hunt”. Draw the basic shapes, square, rectangle, circle, triangle, on a piece of paper. Your child marks a tick for each shape found.


This is an excellent introduction to recognising and counting categories. Move on later to more complex shapes, like pentagons, hexagons, and octagons.


Mathematics is learned best in a hands-on way. Fold paper in half twice to make quarters.


Fruit like melon, pineapple or oranges slice up well into halves and quarters.


Make pizza together and ask your child to cut it into equal slices.


Chocolate slabs provide a ready-made way of demonstrating fractions, and you can eat the answers!


Kindly supplied by Wee Acorns Nursery


Buttery Baked Apples


1 medium-large cooking apple per person Handful of sultanas or raisins ½ tsp mixed spice ½ teaspoon butter (per apple) 1 teaspoon Honey or light brown sugar


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Preheat oven to 160°C/350F Grease a large baking dish using butter.


• Wash and core the apples and score lightly around the centres. Fill the hole of each apple with a few sultanas and top with a fl ake of butter and a sprinkle of sugar or honey if desired.


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Pour in approximately 1 cm of water and bake for 35 minutes until slightly brown and bubbly.


Leave to cool slightly before serving as these will be very hot from the oven.


• Delicious served warm with ice cream or own their own for a tasty winter treat.


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