Today marks two weeks, since I posted my original question on Padlet and Facebook.

Overall, I have had 6 comments.

During today’s class session, my lecturer saw that only 1 person had made a comment on my Padlet wall and so asked everyone else in the class to post a comment.

This has been great, and I am very thankful to everyone in my class for their help with this research.

Padlet Link: https://padlet.com/dixone2/on0xgsif3nzp

The post that I got my friend Charlotte, to share with her teacher friends, unfortunately has not yet collected any comments.

Therefore, I posted a comment, to thank everyone for their help…hopefully, this may encourage some more people to make a comment.

Padlet Ideas that have been given to far:…

• I would teach children how to read through picture books and nursery rhymes.  I would make it as fun as possible and probably they won’t even notice that they’re learning.
• I would teach a child to count through an activity of counting recognizable objects, how many in the room.
• Using natural resources i.e. fruit (segments of a satsuma,  grapes etc..) or counting what they can visually see surrounding them i.e. how many red cars can you see.
• Colourful counters
• easy as 1 2 3
• making a song with their fingers
• I would use coloring pencils to count.
• For a child of the age of 5, I would use a interactive whiteboard. Where i have a number line and the child can count using the board!
• With their fingers…
• I think food is a great incentive when it comes to teaching your child how to count. For example, counting food items such as sweets, cereals (e.g. cheerios) or small fruits (e.g. grapes).

Facebook Ideas that have been given to far:…

• Never underestimate fingers. A resource that’s always available
• Depends on which level of counting.
  One to one counting – any objects around them, fingers, toes, teddy bears, etc.
  Skip counting – pairs of eyes, arms, shoes, 4 chair/table legs, 5 fingers, toes (these obviously also work for 10).
  You can get them to count items around the class as pairs. They count the items individually then look at them in groups of a given number (we used a video on this in maths lecture, will see if I can get it for you)
  Then of course you have things like beadstrings, abacuses, dienes, cuisenaire rods…
  Whatever resource you use, don’t neglect to consider the counting principles. It’s one thing a child SAYING the numbers but do they actually grasp the counting concept and its application (if you google this, NCETM has a great document that outlines these)
• My daughter (in reception) had counting homework last night, to support this she was asked to find four different shoes and line these up in size order. This enabled her to count the shoes and recognise size differences, it was a really fun task for her.
• We’ve used lots of things – mainly we count everything! But he liked moving smarties from one circle to another and counting them… then eating them!
• We are doing this with James. We are literally counting everything. Toys, steps, grapes, blocks…

Thank you so much to everyone that has helped towards this research.

I will now use these ideas towards brainstorming my E-Resource.