Number Work Scheme of Work for Kindergarten Lagos State

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NUMBER WORK KINDERGARTEN FIRST TERM (AGE 5)

Week 1

Topic

BACK TO SCHOOL REVISION ON NUMBER 1-50

Learning objective

Pupils  should be able to

Count and write number 1-50

Arrange number cards 1-50 in the

table and to select pupils for picture identification

Learning Activities

Counting and writing of 1-50

Picking of names, number by each pupil   

Learning Resources

• Number  cards
• Toys

Week 2

Topic

INTRODUCTION OF NUMBERS 51-55

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to read

numbers 51-55 for identification

• Write 1-55 and reverse the  writing
• Match numbers with corresponding

objects correctly and appropriately

Learning Activities

• Pupils pronounce  the numbers 51-55
• Pupils read the number cards
• Pupil match numbers with corresponding

numbers of object correctly

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Flash cards
• Toys
• Concrete objects etc

Week 3

Topic

NUMBERS IN COLOURS

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able  to sing songs and recite poem on colour

• Identify recognize and use primary colours, blue, red, and yellow to arrange and selects some numbers
• Expose the pupil to objects of fruits having natural colours e.g. apples, tomatoes, banana etc.

• Guide pupils to match colours with objects 
• Colours with the object in the environment    

Learning Activities

• Pupils sing songs and recite poem of colour
• Pupil identify and recognize primary colours by narrating the  objects  in the classroom and using colours to sort out and arrange objects e.g. 10 blue bags ,15 yellow plates,8 red pencil, Red 6 green apples, 11 red tomatoes, 3 yellow bananas etc  

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Crayon
• Drawing box
• Colour wheel
• Objects of different colours

Week 4

Topics

INTRODUCTION TO 56-60

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to sing numbers song rhymes
• Identify and read
• Number 56-60 on number cards
• Match the number with appropriate    

Learning Activities

• Pupil should be able to sing numbers songs of rhymes
• Identify and read numbers 56-60 on number cards
• Match the numbers with appropriate numbers  of 56-60
• Match the number with appropriate numbers
• Pupils trace and write numbers 56-60, 1-60

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Number cards
• Picture books
• Toys
• Concrete objects

Week 5

Topic

SHAPES (CIRCLE TRIANGLE SQUARE AND RECTANGLE)

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to
• Sing songs or rhymes on shapes
• Identify different objects in the class
• and relate them to their shapes e.g 
• table top for circle , caution sign for
• triangle wall socket for square
•  

Learning Activities

• Pupils sing songs  recite  rhymes or  shapes
• Pupil draw and colour the shapes
• Pupils describe their classroom
• objects in relation to shapes

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Bottle top
• Ball
• Table
• Box
• Concrete objects
• Pictures charts

Week 6

MID TERM BREAK 

WEEK 7

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 65-70

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to read and
• identify numbers 65-70
• Using number cards
• Write 65-70 and 70-65
• Count and match objects to the right numbers
• Skip count in twos  

Learning Activities

• Pupils pronounce the number after the teacher
• Pupil read and write the numbers
• Pupils fill in the gaps of the missing numbers
• Skip count in twos e.g. 2, 4,6 etc  

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination  

Learning Resources

• Flash cards
• Toys
• Concrete object

Week 8

Topic

MEASUREMENT TIME (CLOCK)

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to explain
• time and it purpose to man
• Recognize a clock as one of the object
• the objects in the environment
• Identify the four hand and the minutes hand
• Using an analogue clock
• Read and tell the time on ‘clock e.g. clock  2 clock etc    

Learning Activities

• Pupils identify  and that hands of a clock
• Pupil in group hands to read time e.g 2 o’clock,
• 10 o’clock etc
• Pupils sing songs on activities of hours  of the day
• Read and tell the time on o’clock     

Embedded Core Skills

•  Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination  

Learning Resources

• Wall clock
• Wristwatch
• O clock model
• Calendar
• CD for songs of the week , months and year 

Week 9

Topic

LENGTH COMPARISON

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to
• Give simple meaning of length
• Identify some objects to be short or long/tall
• Compare the length of objects using on standard unit 

Learning Activities

• Pupils as a class discuss length and the uses
• Pupil in pairs identify and classify
• some objects ascending order length
• Pupil are
•  Measurement of objects
• Sing non standard  unit e.g
• Index finger or finger standard.

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Measuring objects
• Length picture charts

Week 10-11

REVISION   

WEEK  12/13 – EXAMINATION

NUMBER WORK KINDERGARTEN  SECOND TERM (AGE 5)

WKS 1

TOPIC

BACK TO SCHOOL /REVISION ON 1-70

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to

• interact and discuss how they spent their holiday
• Count and write numbers 1-70 and 71-1

Learning Activities

• Pupil count and write numbers 1-70
• Pupils reverse the reading and writing of 70-1
• Skip count numbers in twos

Embedded Core Skills

• –   –

Learning Resources

Number cards

Week 2

Topic

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBER 71-75

Learning objective

• Pupil should be  able to recite with number 71-75
• Using flash cards or number cards
• Read the numbers 71-75
• Fill in the gaps with missing numbers

Learning Activities

• Pupils read the numbers
• One after the other
• Pupils count and write the numbers
• Pupil fills in the missing numbers
• Pupils match numbers with objects

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Number chart
• Number songs
• Toys
• Sand tray

Week 3

Topic

ROMANS NUMERALS 1 TO X – 1-10

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to

• discuss on Roman Numerals  as one of the indigenous ways of wring numbers.
• introduce the Roman numerals 10 x 1-10 with songs in rhymes e.g. displaying the number cards on Roman numerals e.g. i,ii, iii, iv etc 

Learning Activities

• Pupils sing songs on Roman numerals
• Pupils match numerals
• Pupil read and write
• Roman numerals  

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Number flash cards
• Roman numerals flash card

Week 4

Topic

MOLDING OF NUMBERS

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to mold numbers with the use of plasticine of clay
• Use number cards
• Play games e.g. playing cards, with card sunuku game ludo game etc
• Perform some activities on identification
• Colouring sorting counting of numbers

Learning Activities

• Pupils engage in molding numbers
• Pupils engage in number games
• Pupils sing number songs
• Pupils engage in sorting colouring numbers 
•  

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Plasticine
• Clay
• Playing cards
• Flash card etc

Week 5

Topic

INTRODUCTION NUMBERS 76-80

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to read and identify numbers 76-80
• Using number card or song rhyme
• Select the numbers 76-80 among other numbers
• Count and write numbers
• Count and write numbers 76-80

Learning Activities

• Pupil read the numbers after  the teacher
• Pupils count and write the number
• Pupils fill in the missing number gaps 

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Numbers chart
• Number songs

Week 6

Topic

MID TERM   

WEEK 7

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 81-85

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to
• Read number 81-85 Using number cards
• Count and write 81 -85
• Fill in the gaps with missing numbers
• Group and sort numbers

Learning Activities

• Pupils pronounce the numbers one after the other
• Pupils count and write the numbers
• Pupils sort of the numbers in reverse order
• Pupils fill in the missing numbers in gaps

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Number card
• Number chart
• Toys

Week 8

Topic

FRACTION HALF (1/2)

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to give simple meaning of fraction
• Presents objects of food items that can be divided into two equal halves e.g. groundnut , take pepper, tomatoes, orange, etc e.g. ground
• Perform tasks on drawing , colouring Matching of halves with their objects appropriately

Learning Activities

• Pupils describe fraction as part of a whole
• Pupils cut food items into halves
• Pupils draw, colour and
• match halves with the appropriate objects 

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

•  Food items
• Chart
• Clayon
• Knife
• Orange

Week 9

Topic

WEIGHT

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to  give

• simple meaning of weight
• Use non standard unit to compare weight
• Use weighing balance to compare the weights of two objects
• Give tasks on tick, 1 heaver objects between 2 choices or tick ( ) the lighter object between 2 choices  

Learning Activities

• Pupil carry two objects to prepare their weights
• Compare their weights
• Pupil tick the heavier or lighter objects

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Concrete objects
• Weighing balance
• Picture book

Week 10/11 REVISION  

Week 11-12 – EXAMINATION  

Early Childhood Care Education, Number work scheme of work for kindergarten (AGE 5). Measurement of time. schemeofwork.com

NUMBER WORK KINDERGARTEN  THIRD TERM (AGE 5)

Week 1

Topic

BACK TO SCHOOL REVISION ON NUMBERS 1-85

Learning objective

• Revision on number activities (1-85)

Learning Activities

• – –

Week 2

Topic

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBER 86-90

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to sing numbers
• songs or rhymes of numbers
• Read numbers using the number
• the number cards of 86-90
• Reverse counting of 86-90
• Match objects of group of numbers with numbers

Learning Activities

• Pupils read and write 86-90 using number cards
• Pupil read and write numbers 86-90
• Pupil match numbers with objects of groups

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Number cards
• Toys
• Picture chart

Week  3

Topic

GREATER THAN (>) AND LESS THAN (<)

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to
• Give simple meaning of greater than and less than
• Find the right aim and the left aim to illustrate the signs
• Perform tasks on number command sort form.

Learning Activities

• Pupil should demonstrate the signs of greater than (>) and less (<) than
• Pupil do simple tasks on greater and less than
• Using object e.g. 5 pens and 2 pens 5>2, 42 cups and 18 cups, 12 < 18

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Flash cards
• Plasticine
• White marker chart

Week 4

Topic

PLACE VALUE OF NUMBERS  

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to
• Give simple meaning of place value
• in relation to the numbers
• Use of Abacus to
• Arrange the place value of numbers 10-1-20, 1-50
• E.g. tens and units
• Interpret the place value of number on Abacus e.g 12

Learning Activities

• Pupil draw /Abacus
• Pupil represents numbers on the
• Abacus to represent the number

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Abacus
• Counters

Week 5

Topic

INTRODUCTION TO NUMBERS 91-100

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to
• Sing  songs of recite rhyme on96-100
• Recite with numbers 96-100 using numbers card chart
• Numbers 96-100, 1-50 and 1-100
• Reverse the counting of 100
•  

Learning Activities

• Pupils sing songs and rhyme to read 96-100

Pupils count and write 1-100

Pupils reverse the counting and

writing of numbers 100-91

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Flash cards
• Toys
• Charts

Site Links

Week 6  MID TERM BREAK

Week 7

Topic

NUMBER IN WORDS 1-10

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to Recite 1-10 , 10 in words
• Display number cards having the words written on them on numbers 1-10
• Sing songs and rhymes for mastering

One      two   three

1           2      3  

• Write number 1-10 in words

Learning Activities

• Pupils recite one -1, 10 to ten 10
• Pupils copy one songs 10 numbers words
• Pupils match numbers and words

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Flash cards
• Number charts on words

Week  8

Topic

SIMPLE ADDITION OF NUMBER 1-9

Learning objective

• Pupils should be able to demonstrate

Simple meaning of addition and its sign (+)

Guide pupils to give a give answer to pictoral addition of objects

Learning Activities

• Pupil solves simple addition by pouring objects together e.g. 

000 + 00

2 + 3 = 5

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination  

Learning Resources

• Concrete objects
• Charts

Week 9

Topic

SIMPLE SUBTRACTION OF NUMBERS

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to
• Give simple meaning of subtraction and its sign ( )
• Sing songs or rhymes
• Illustrate the concept of subtraction e,g.

ten green bottles standing on wall  if one

 green bottle is taken out of them all  9 green

bottles standing on the wall etc

• Guide out it to give pictorial subtraction of object

Learning Activities

• Pupil sing songs and rhymes on subtraction 
• Pupil demonstrate simple subtraction by counting objects

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Counters
• Concrete objects

Week 10

Topics:  MONEY AND USES

Learning objective

• Pupil should be able to

• discuss simple meaning of money and uses
• Provide shopping corner in the classroom in each items with price present. demo in in Naira of Nigerian currencies in pupil
• Do a one play on buying and selling of commodities N5 to N10

Learning Activities

• Pupils discuss money and its uses
• Pupils identify money denomination by reading the number written in
• Pupil brings a shopping items to class and tag items with price tag
• Pupil identify Nigerian currencies showing them Using numbers
• Pupils demonstrate simple shopping in the classroom

Note: encourage pupils on saving culture  

Embedded Core Skills

• Communication and 
• Collaborate
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Creativity and imagination

Learning Resources

• Money samples specimen chart
• Simple commodities e.g. 

sweet packets of biscuit in milk

Week 11/12 REVISION

Week 13- EXAMINATIONS