We have continued to explore ways that we can count more efficiently. We have learnt that sorting our collection into groups helps our counting, especially when we play Roll and Collect. 
Last week, the teachers gave us a challenge. Our success criteria was to sort our collections using pairs and groups of ten.  We worked with a partner to test different ways that we might achieve this.

We worked out that if we sort our collection into pairs and in rows of 10, our counting is much more  efficient! It took us 20 seconds to count our collection by 2's... It only took us 6 seconds to count our collections by 10's! We were amazed!

Here is an app we have been using in our reading groups to focus on nouns - the names of people, places and things. We like it because we get to play it against a partner and see who is the quickest at matching the name to the picture.