Abacus Evolve Framework Edition
Year 1
Resources needed for Abacus Evolve Framework Edition Year 1
Number cards
- number cards 0–100
- Zero – twenty number name cards
- Large number tiles 1–7
- number cards 1–10, with doubles written on the backs in a different colour
- multiple of 10 cards 0–100 with pictures of a wolf on each multiple of ten
- Large cards: 3p, 13p, 23p, 33p, 43p, 53p, 63p, 73p, 83p, 93p
- number cards 1–8, with number pairs to 8 written on the backs in a different colour
- Large multiple of 5 cards 5–50
Other cards
- large place-value cards (tens and units)
- Cards with drawings showing a series of events
Other paper resources
- 100-square
- 0–99 grid
- 1–50 grid
- 0–30 number line
- 1–30 number line with a picture of a wolf on each multiple of ten
- Sheets of paper with a 3 × 3 array of dots
- Red and blue sheets of paper
- four drawings of houses labelled ‘circles’, ‘squares’, ‘triangles’, ‘rectangles’
- Large circle divided into quadrants labelled with each season; smaller circle divided into 12,
labelled with each month
- Labels: ‘circles’, ‘squares’, ‘triangles’, ‘rectangles’
- Labels: ‘more than 3 sides’, ‘fewer than 4 sides’, …
- Labels: ‘straight’, ‘curved’
- Labels with ‘first’, ‘second’, …, ‘tenth’ on one side and ‘1 st’, ‘2nd’, …, ‘10th’ on the other
- Ten large card circles in which to write numbers
- Large 0–20 number track
- Large number sentences for number pairs to 10
- 0–50 number grid with pictures of a wolf on each multiple of ten
- Large 1–20 number track
- Picture of a ticket to a theme park priced £13
- Navy blue ‘sky’ with nine planets Blu-tacked on
- Stickers of Owl 6p, Pussy-Cat 3p, Turkey 8p
Pictures of characters
- Bisky Bat
- Blue Baboon
- Olympian Bear
- Attery Squash
- Pobble
- Owl
- Jumping-back Frog
- Wolf
- Bear
- Picture of a famous person e.g. a footballer
- Pictures of famous people
- Picture of a cat with four kittens
- Picture of a dog with five puppies
- Picture of a rabbit with six babies
Stationery
- Set of identical pencils
- Set of identical glue-sticks
- Five identical pens
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Abacus Evolve Framework Edition
Year 1
- Seven paper clips
- Crayons of five different colours per pair
- Crayons of six different colours per pair
- Blu-tack
- Blank card
- Sticky stars
- Dark blue paper
Physical resources
- The Quangle Wangle’s Hat by Edward Lear
- Whatever next! by Jill Murphy
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
- Where The Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, or another monster book
- One Pink Sari by Ann Marie Linden
- Shopping story book e.g. The Elephant and the Bad Baby by Vidpont and Briggs
- A version of Little Red Riding Hood
- A version of Three Little Pigs
- Large book
- Several identical sized books
- Linking cubes in various colours
- Big bricks
- About 25 small bricks
- washing line and pegs
- large straw hat
- Four large pointed hats bearing the names of seasons
- 30–40 seedless grapes
- Small potatoes or carrots
- Two large biscuits
- Plain biscuit, chocolate biscuit, lollipop, ice-lolly
- Dried peas
- 35–40 leaves
- Small branch from a bush or tree, with leaves for children to estimate
- Individual whiteboards
- Cloth bag
- Box
- Colander or other container
- Mug or plastic beaker
- Mug with a bat on it
- Container e.g. a large jar or litre cube
- Jars (at least two)
- Pottery mug
- Transparent containers of different capacities
- Three or four objects of different lengths e.g. a skittle, a pole, a rounders bat
- Three or four objects of different heights e.g. a bin, a chair, a basket
- Three or four objects that are more than, less than and exactly five pens long
- Three scarves (or card strips) of different types/colours and lengths
- Three sticks (or pencils, paintbrushes, …) of different colours and lengths
- Heavy objects e.g. a hardback book, a ball
- Light objects e.g. a board rubber, a box
- Set of three objects of different weights e.g. a clock, a jar, a mug
- Another set of three objects of different weights e.g. a packet of biscuits, an apple, a cake
- Units for weighing e.g. plastic bricks, potatoes, conkers, cubes
- Objects for weighing e.g. a puppet, a paperback book, a toy, a sandwich box
- Units for measuring e.g. yoghurt pots, egg-cups, tea-cups, small bottles
- Bucket-balance
- Coat hanger
- Blue and yellow pegs
- Marbles
- Puppet
- Number fans
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Year 1
- Large cube or dice labelled 6, 8, 10, 13, 15, 20
- 1–6 dice with the 4 covered by a 6
- Two 1–6 dice
- Four large 1–6 dice
- Dice marked 1, 2, 3, 4, 1, 2
- Dice with a sun covering the 1
- Teddy bear
- Toy cat
- Toy dog
- Three toys e.g. a lion, a tiger and elephant
- Small toy
- Set of drinking straws
- Tray
- Beads
- Plastic or card version of all the things eaten in The Very Hungry Caterpillar
- Plastic or cardboard monsters
- Transparent counters
- Four chairs
- Two hoops
- 2D shapes: squares, rectangles, circles, triangles, semicircles
- 3D shapes: cubes, cuboids, pyramids, spheres, cylinders, cones
- Tape recorder with musical tape
- ‘double-your-money’ machine (box with ‘in’ and ‘out’ slots)
- Large model coins: £2, £1, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1p
- Real coins: £2, £1, 50p, 20p, 10p, 5p, 2p, 1p (35 or more 1p coins)
- Purse
- Large money box
- Large dominoes
- Playing cards without picture cards
- Five bean bags
- Large analogue clock with movable hands
- One-minute sand timer
- ‘Pinger’ timer
- Wooden board
- Counting hoop marked with insulating tape at 10 equidistant intervals, the start and half-way
marks in a different colour
- Six large stars
- Cardboard fish and shark
- Water
- Sand
- 30 pegs or key rings in six different colours
- Red plate
- Blue plate
- Plastic numbers (or number cards) 3–30
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