Outdoor Learning with KG.  Introduced a skittle bowling game with 12 skittles distributed into 3 hoops (4 in each).  The skittles the furthest away (blue) score the highest (5).  All other skittles score 1.  Children take turns to bowl and scores are recorded using tally marks on a chalkboard.

It was a great opportunity to assess the children's counting skills and known addition facts.  How could the scoring be changed to develop their counting skills further?  Skittles could be worth 2, 3 and 5 to create a wider variety of scoring options.

One player, was able to remember his previous score and mentally add the new score to it, whilst others needed to count from the beginning each time.  The game provided motivation to engage with the numbers of the scoring system.  Once familiar with the game, including taking turns recording the scores and totaling them, children could be engaged with problems in the classroom that relate to the real game outdoors: (from NNS Mathematical Challenges booklet. Crown Copyright 2000)