Adding Cars and Buses

💡 About this activity

🎯 Learning objectives

• Count all the pictures in two groups, pointing to each one once.
• Write the answers to six addition problems with totals up to 10.
• Explain how they found at least one answer.

🧺 What you need

• Printed activity sheet
• Pencil
• Eraser

👣 How to do it

1. Print the sheet and gather a pencil and eraser.
2. Show the groups of vehicles and explain that the plus sign means to put the groups together.
3. Model the first problem, pointing to each picture as you count them all aloud.
4. Invite the child to write the total in the answer space.
5. Let the child solve the remaining problems, offering help as needed.
6. Check the answers together and celebrate the child's effort.

🍎 Teaching suggestions

• Say, “Let's count all the vehicles, first in one group and then in the other.”
• If the child loses count, help them point to each picture just once.
• Talk about vehicles you see on the street or in books.
• In a group, invite children to share different ways to find the total.

🔀 Variations

💬 Talk about it

• How did you find out how many vehicles there are altogether?
• What happens to the total when we put the two groups together?
• What is another way you could find the answer?

👀 What to look for

• Notice whether the child points to each picture once while counting.
• Check whether the child writes the correct total for each problem.
• Listen as the child explains how they solved one problem.