Reception Taking Away Green Bottles Game

Teacher Specific Information

This Reception Taking Away Green Bottles Game is great for children working towards achieving the Early Learning Goal. Encourage children to knock the bottles off the wall to work out the subtraction calculations. They will then select the correct answer.  

Development Matters

40 – 60 Months
(M-N27) In practical activities and discussion, beginning to use the vocabulary involved in adding and subtracting.

Early Learning Goal
(ELG11) Children count reliably with numbers from 1 to 20, place them in order and say which number is one more or one less than a given number. Using quantities and objects, they add and subtract 2 single digit numbers and count on or back to find the answer. They solve problems, including doubling, halving and sharing.