Mathematics

 

The children will be experimenting with some early addition of numbers to 10. We will be doing this as a large group and reenacting a bus story. I will line up 10 chairs in a line and someone will be the bus driver. The bus stops at Ontario street and picks up 3 children. Then the bus turns onto Linwell Street and 2 children get on the bus. How many children are on the bus. How do you know? (The children will be introduced to a number sentence). I know there are 5 children on the bus because 3 + 2 = 5. The children will be doing this several times each day.

 

Another early addition activity for the children is: they will roll a die and make that many dabs with a bingo dapper then roll the die again and make that many dabs and then write how many altogether.

 

I am hoping the children will want to make addition books by drawing pictures and writing a plus sign and more pictures, then an equal sign and write how many altogether.