Butterfly Directions Maths Worksheets
Lesson Plan: Butterfly Directions
Age group: Year 2
Subject area: Maths Key Stage 1
Curriculum objectives: Ma3 3a, 3b, 3c
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Lesson objectives:
Pupils should learn:
- The directions
- To work through a problem in a logical way.
Learning Outcomes
Pupils will be able to
- Present the results in an organised way.
- Children will be able to explain what they did and describe the patterns they see.
Vocabulary
Above, below, left, right next to, underneath, middle.
Resources:
- Copies of the butterfly sheet and directions
- Colouring pencils red, green, yellow, orange, pink and black
Introduction
- Ask the children to point above, below, underneath, next to, left, right of themselves.
- Discuss strategies for remembering left and right (your left hand makes an L shape with your thumb and index finger as you look at it from the back of your hand).
- Tell the children that they are going to work out which butterflies to colour in.
Extension:
Which colour butterfly is right of the blue one?
Which colour butterfly is below the pink one?
Which colour butterfly is left of the orange one?
Which colour butterfly is in the middle?
Plenary
Who can remember a good strategy to help us know our left from our right?
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