L1 Summer Count To and Across 100 From Any Number

Working Without Worksheets – Year 1 Place Value: Count to and Across Numbers to 100 This Working Without Worksheets lesson helps Year 1 children extend their counting skills to 100 forwards and backwards from any given number. Through active learning, number grids, and practical games, children gain confidence in working with numbers beyond 50 while building fluency in recognising number patterns. The starter activity makes counting fun and collaborative: Play Toss and Count with a partner and a beanbag. Children take turns throwing the beanbag and counting together from 20 to 50. When they reach 50, they count back again to 20. This recap reinforces earlier work within 50 and prepares children for numbers up to 100. In the main input, children are introduced to the hundred square: Remind children of using the 50-grid. Show how a hundred square allows us to count to 100. Practise counting in 1s from 1 to 100 and back again. Discuss quicker methods – counting in tens. Demonstrate how this helps us reach 100 more efficiently. Use counters on the hundred square to model: Counting forwards (e.g., 86 to 94, 37 to 63). Counting backwards (e.g., 92 to 86, 75 to 61). Encourage children to spot the patterns in rows and columns. The independent activity is practical and collaborative: In small groups, children are given a pile of number cards from 50 to 100 – but they are all muddled up! Their challenge is to work together to unshuffle and order the numbers correctly from 50 to 100. Children use the hundred square to check and support their ordering. Add challenge by timing groups to see who can complete the task most quickly and accurately. The plenary addresses common misconceptions: Look at Esin’s mistake when trying to count from 54 to 72. She counted too many tens and then backwards in ones! Use counters on the hundred square to demonstrate the correct method: Down 1 ten from 54 to 64, then across in ones from 64 to 72. Reinforce the strategy of combining tens and ones