Using Dialogue

Key Equipment

The activities rely on the teacher having certain basic equipment. Most of this will be found in any primary school. A couple of items may need to be specially ordered.

Equipment from the gym cupboard:

• Large plastic hoops

• Bean bags

• Coloured stacking cones in three colours

Equipment from the maths cupboard (some home-made):

• A set of large numbers which can be stood on (eg on cork tiles) - 0 to 20.

• A copious number of red and white Metre Sticks - enough for one for every two pupils in the class. These can be ordered from NES Arnold. They have the particular feature of having a marking for each number from 0 to 100, but only having the numbers 0, 5, 10, 15, 20 etc actually written on the stick.

• Counters

• A series of jam jar lids or similar (enough for 4 between each pair of children) - small pieces of paper can be used if necessary.

Items from the stationery cupboard:

• Small envelopes

• Plenty of paper

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