Reception/Year 1 Resource List
These are the resources which class teachers need in order to teach the Hamilton plans. These are exhaustive lists - i.e. they are the resources you would have in an ideal world. So it is possible to teach the Hamilton plans without some of these resources (and many teachers do). But these are the things which, if you are wanting to allow teachers to do the best possible job, a school would have.
Class based resourcesAutumn / Spring / Summer
· Washing line, 20 pegs and large number 1–20 cards
· Mini-pegs and string to make a mini-washing line
· Small toys, conkers, shells, cars, animals
· Lego™
· Multilink cubes
· Post-it notesTM
· 20-bead bar
· 20-bead strings
· Big bricks
· PlasticineTM
· 1-10 dice
· Beanbag
· Two large spotty foam dice
· Coat hanger with 10 pegs, 5 in one colour and 5 in another, and a cloth
· 1-6 spotty dice
· 1-6 number dice
· 1,2 dice
· Counters
· Sets of dominoes
· Pots of real/plastic coins
· Large replica coins
· Lots of plastic £1 coins
· Large £1 coins
· Post-it notes™
· Play dough
· Cars and garage
· Counting animals
· 1–10 track
· Digit cards or number fans
· 1-10 cards
· 0-20 cards
· Enlarged 0-20 beaded line
· 1-100 number grid
· 100-bead bar and tags
· Small world play figures and house / · Washing line, 20 pegs and large number 1–20 cards
· 1-100 number grid
· Toy spider and fly
· Lego bricks™
· Cubes
· 100-bead bar and tags
· 0-9 digit cards
· Post-it notes™
· Counters
· 1-10 number cards
· Two large spotty foam dice
· Large 1-6 numerical dice
· 1-6 dice
· Large mock (or IWB) 10p, 5p, £1, 2p and 1p coins
· Real 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and £1 coins; pots of plastic 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p and £1 coins
· Sets of number cards 1-20
· Bean bag
· Dice with 1 or 2 spots on each side (use a blank dice or cover spots with labels)
· 100 bead strings
· 10s and 1s place value cards
· Pots of 10p and 1p coins
· 1-100 number track (or use the cut up 1-100 square from Autumn week 6)
· 1-10 number tracks
· 0 to 20 number line
· Playdough/saltdough
· 10 pegs, 5 in one colour, and 5 in another, coat hanger and cloth
· Mini-world animals e.g. cows, sheep, horses
· Construction bricks
· Counting bears/similar
· Numicon® / · 1–100 number square
· 100-bead bar, cloth and tags
· Counters
· 0–9 digit cards
· Post-it™ notes
· 1–100 number track (or use the cut up 1–100 square from Autumn Week 6)
· Large 0–100 beaded line
· 1–20 number track
· Dominoes
· 1-10 dice
· 10s and 1s place value cards
· 1-6 dice
· 1 to 10 number cards
· 20 pegs, 10 in one colour, and 10 in another, coat hanger and cloth to hide pegs
· Washing line and pegs
· Cubes
· Bean bag
· 2p, 5p and 10p coins
· 100-bead strings
· Construction and Lego™
· Small world characters
· Counting bears/similar
· 1 to 20 number cards
Centrally based resources
Autumn / Spring / Summer
· Beads and bead strings
· Large 3D plastic shapes
· A geared analogue clock
· Small clocks for each pair of children
· Clock stamps
· One minute sand timer
· Metre sticks
· Gummed shapes (or shape printing blocks and paints)
· 2D shapes: to include at least squares, rectangles and triangles of different proportions, circles, semi-circles, ovals, hearts
· Trays and pint for printing
· Drums, wood blocks and triangles
· Playground chalk
· Skipping ropes
· Clipboards
· Digital camera
· Geoboards and elastic bands
· A set of plastic capital letters
· Large plastic bricks (of the sort used outside)
· 1-100 number cards / · Large plastic bricks (of the sort used outside)
· 0-100 cards (organised into multiples of tens)
· Playground chalk
· Balance with large buckets
· Geared analogue clock and large digital clock
· Clock stamp
· Small clocks with moveable hands
· Bucket balances (including ones with large buckets)
· Wooden bricks and marbles (or other uniform objects)
· 1-50 number cards
· Hoops
· 1-12 floor number track/tiles
· A range of 3D shapes to include cubes, cuboids, cylinders, cones and spheres, triangular prisms and square-based pyramids
· Packaging in different shapes
· Digital camera
· Squares, triangles pentagons and hexagons from a construction kit (such as Polydron)
· Minute sand timers
· Cuisenaire rods (or other equivalent resource)
· Beads and string to thread beads on / · Containers with different capacities and proportions, plastic cups, jug, food colouring and washing up bowls
· Sand
· Funnel
· 1 litre squash bottle
· 2 litre bottle (e.g. spring water),
· Coloured marker pens
· Masking tape
· Beads and string to thread beads on
· Small analogue clocks
· Large teaching clock
· Variety of 2D shapes
· 2 hoops
· Variety of 3D shapes in different colours
· Real-life 3D objects, e.g. cereal boxes, cube boxes, balls, sweet tubes, tins etc.
· 1-30 number cards
· Marbles
Resources specific for one lesson
Autumn / Spring / Summer
· An open shallow basket
· Six plates, each with a number on, numbered 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10
· About 20 supermarket vouchers of the sort schools save to buy computer or sports resources
· Closable cardboard boxes x3
· Two plates
· 5 identical pieces of fruit, e.g. bananas
· 6 egg shaped pieces of paper or real eggs in an egg box (preferably blown)
· At least 60 class books
· A cloth or towel to cover a large dice
· 6 different kinds of fruit in sets of 1,2,3,4,5,6 (e.g. 1 apple, 2 oranges etc.)
· Decks of cards with picture cards and aces removed, x several
· Money box or tin with 20 pennies
· A large toy bus
· A cake or drawing of a cake plus 10 candles
· Real coins- enough for each child to have one
· £5, £10, £20 notes
· Pre-prepared price tags (see week 3)
· Lots of plastic £1 coins
· Large £1 coins
· Pre-prepared price tags with coin amounts e.g. 1p, 2p, 5p, 10p etc.
· Washing line with days of the week
· Paper snakes
· 3 teddies and 3 ‘blankets’ made from cloths
· Different cookie cutters
· Oval and circle shapes cut out of paper to use as faces
· Pictures/photos of faces from magazines
· Pictures of sheep
· Biscuits and plates
· IWB picture of a bus
· 2 jam jars
· 6 sweets
· 6 pictures of a frog
· 2 lily pad pictures
· Butter beans- sprayed a different colour on one side
· Hat (or tin) and cubes
· Blank dice labelled +1, +2, +2, –1, –2, –2 and a large dice similarly labelled
· Bowls filled with natural objects- 1-10 items per bowl
· Pebbles and shells
· Leaves
· Puppet
· Pointer
· Hoops
· 10 soft toys and a blanket
· Large outlines of butterflies/ladybirds
· Today is Monday by Eric Carle (Puffin, ISBN: 978-0140553109)
· The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Puffin, ISBN: 0140569324)
· Class timetable
· Long strips of thin card to make zig-zag books
· ‘Wall’ made from a cardboard box
· Rope/cord to make small moveable hoops
· Newspapers and tape
· Cards with 1-10 spots on one side, numerals on the other
· Three teddies/soft toys of different heights
· Long strips of paper
· Paper snakes (different lengths from 5 to 10 crayons long)
· Egg box with 6 spaces
· Addition cards for 6 (6 + 0 = 6, 5 + 1 = 6…), 7 (7 + 0 = 7, 6 + 1 = 7…) and 10 (10 + 0 = 10, 9 + 1= 10…)
· 2 ‘houses’ (cardboard boxes) and 10 soft toys
· 10 cut out frogs, and drawing of 10 lily pads on a pond
· ‘Slidy box’ cards with addition pairs to 10
· 4 identical boxes with lids, with 7, 9, 11 and 13 objects inside, e.g. play people/Lego™ figures
· Numbers 10 to 20 made from sandpaper / · Beans/pasta shapes
· Wiggly snakes made from A3 paper
· Puppet
· Shells/pebbles
· Cardboard box
· 20 soft toys
· 4 different boxes with lids with 5, 7, 9 & 10 objects inside, e.g. play people/Lego™ figures, 1-20 cards, interlocking cubes
· Five soft toys
· Rosettes made from paper
· Cards with ‘tunes’ for chn to play; picture of instruments repeated a different number of times
· Puppet
· 50 objects, e.g. play people, Lego™ bricks
· Empty plastic bottles (9 to make skittles from)
· Items for sale with prices: 2p, 3p, 5p, 6p, 7p, 10p, 11p and 20p
· Items with price labels: 7p, 12p, 8p, 5p and 9p
· 1p, 10p coins and a tin
· A bag of sugar, a larger bag of cotton wool, bag of potatoes of similar size
· 12 cards with written times to the hour
· Cards with analogue times and card with digital times to the hour
· Selection of fruit and vegetables to weigh
· Fruit and vegetables for each table, each labelled with a Post-it™ note
· 1-20 cards with the matching number of spots on the other side arranged in a regular pattern
· Plastic bottle rocket
· Bowls of 1-20 spring objects/pictures, e.g. 14 daffodils, 11 tulips, picture of 12 chicks, picture of 18 lambs
· Pairs of (clean) socks!
· Hard boiled sweets in wrappers
· Tin or money box and 11 pennies
· 11 soft toys and blanket
· Covered ‘car park’ made from a cardboard box and 12 cars
· Three items (e.g. stationery items, pencil, pad, sharpener) with price labels up to 99p
· Days of the week on cards
· Selection of objects for chn to measure
· Long pieces of string
· Lots of pieces of string cut to different sizes
· Ribbon
· Two soft toys- teddy and dog
· Plates
· Food items to share out e.g. biscuits, packets of raisins, carrots, grapes
· Shallow trays of paint, paint aprons, newspaper and A3 paper. Hypoallergenic baby wipes may also come in useful!
· Pictures from the internet of 3D shapes not available either in packaging or visible in the classroom (e.g. ice-cream cone, traffic cone)
· Prepared addition cards to match addition snakes for 8 and 9
· Socks of different sizes and patterns
· 10 soft toys,
· A cardboard box made to look like a house
· 10 frogs and lily pads
· 2 plates and biscuits
· Pretend bus tickets
· Tray
· Dice – stickered with 10/20/30
· Pre-cut petals in two colours
· Purses/pouches/tubs
· 2 cardboard boxes
· Water trays
· Food items that you might find at a school tuck shop with price labels 11p, 12p, 13p, 15p, 17p, 19p and 20p
· Food items with price labels 25p, 30p, 41p, 52p
· Stationery items with prices 67p, 42p, 56p, 73p, 48p and 59p, 26p, 32p, 45p and 56p
· Lots of real pennies
· Stories about months, e.g. A Busy Year by Leo Lionni and Month by Month, A Year Goes Round by Carol Diggory Shields (or Katie’s Year by James Robertson, ISBN: 978-1845022648 or Skip through the Seasons by Stella Blackstone & Maria Carluccio, ISBN: 978-1905236701 or Maisy’s Seasons by Lucy Cousins, ISBN: 978-0763652227)
· Balloon shaped cards
· Sand trays
· Purse full of money
· Items labelled up under 5p
· Circles divided into 4 sections
· A3 paper divided into 4 section
· Magazines containing seasonal pictures
· Cards with the months of the year written on them / · Boxes of approximately 10, 20, 50 and 100 items (e.g. Lego™ bricks, pencils, cubes)
· Items with price labels: 30p, 40p, 35p, 50p, 52p, 60p, 67p, 70p, 90p, 95p and £1 (e.g. stationery)
· A pack of 10 balloons and 4 single balloons
· 10 soft toys
· Coloured paper shapes (pre-prepared)
· Sticks
· Lengths of ribbon
· Bear
· 100 objects, e.g. Lego bricks, counters
· Clear money bags
· Clear food bags
· Small objects e.g. counters, pieces of dried pasta
· ‘Garage’ made from cardboard box
· Magazines
· Role-play shop
· Price tags with amounts in pounds
· Items (e.g. stationery) with price tags in multiples of 10p
· Slidy box cards with number sentences adding/subtracting 10/11 to/from multiples of ten such as 60 + 10 = 70 and 80 – 11 = 69
· Egg box, 6 brown eggs and 6 white eggs,
· Number sentences written on cards for pairs to 6 and 7
· 5 socks of one colour and 5 in another colour.
· Four containers of different proportions, for example including a tall thin vase and a wide shallow bowl
· A large container (e.g. jug) and a collection of smaller non-standard measures (e.g. yoghurt pot, tin, eggcup)
· 4 pudding bowls of different sizes
· Ten 2p coins and a tin
· Clown outlines
· Selection of groups of objects in a tub, e.g. counters, pencils, multilink, beads, counting bears, straws for each pair
· Magnetic counters
· Sweets
· Ten large replica 2p coins
· 10–19p cards
· Pictures of toys and prices on IWB (see week 6)
· Empty food containers with price labels
· Feely bag
· Different toys priced up as in plan for week 6
· Cards with days of the week written on
· Pre-prepared addition cards with bonds to 5, 6 and 7 written on
· Large sheets of paper split into 7 days (sections)
· Buttons
· Sandpaper numbers 10 to 20
· +10, –10 cards
· Card with +1 on side and –1 on the other,
· Dice with +1, +2, +3, –1, –2, and –3 on its faces,
· 20 tea-lights
· Pre-prepared symbols for pictograms photocopied (see week 11)
· The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle (Puffin, 978-0241003008)
· Calendar
· Purse
It is assumed that classrooms have rulers, individual whiteboards, pens and rubbers, coloured pencils, scissors, glue sticks, Blu-tac®, A3 paper and access to the internet.