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CROSS THE RIVER

• Children work in two groups of five, Team A and Team B.
• Each group of five stands behind a line, facing each other,
“across the river”.
• Both teams have to attempt to get to the other side of the
“river”, whilst balancing bricks on any part of their body.
• Whichever team can get their 30 bricks to the other side
first, wins.
• The bricks have to be balanced on some part of the body,
and may not be held.
• If a brick falls off, they have to go back behind the line and
start again.
• Each team member has to move at least one brick across
- cannot have one child moving all the bricks.

STEPPING

STONES

• Children think of any number between one and
six.
• They take that number of bricks from their 6
bricks and arrange them on the mat.
• Each child’s arrangement of bricks should be
one after the other, going across the river (mat)
to the other side, like stepping stones.
• Children take turns to step from one
arrangement to the other, calling out the
number of bricks in each arrangement.
• Children should try to recognise how many
bricks there are, without counting the bricks
(number conservation).

Q: Can you get to the other side of the river
without falling in?

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