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Tahi is 1, rua is 2
Children start learning numeracy skills from the time they’re born. This learning happens from watching and experiencing numeracy in action, especially in everyday play and activities. For example, it happens when you encourage your child to:
- count fingers, toes and toys
- recognise numbers and shapes on objects like clocks and phones or in books
- decide how many slices of apple she wants.
It's so exciting to watch this learning unfold in our centre, across all four of our rooms. Our tamariki count, sort, notice patterns and shapes, indoors and outdoors. They sing songs and finger rhymes, read stories with numbers, play counting games, build with blocks and identify shapes, slowly learn to recognise numerals and understand counting with 1:1 correspondence. We love to practise our counting in te reo.