Number Bonds!

Hi mummies and daddies,

For Numeracy, we have been practicing the concept of "Number Bonds" for the past few weeks. Here are a couple of activities we did to enhance our understanding of number bonds.

First, we did flower pot number bonds during one of our lessons. The children were each given a paper flower pot with a number up to 10 printed on it. They were then invited to break down the number into two smaller numbers. Children chose two coloured cupcake liners to represent the flowers and wrote the two smaller numbers in them using markers. They then pasted their paper flower pots and cupcake liners a drawing paper to make their flower pot number bonds. After that, they stamped corresponding number of butterflies on their papers using the butterfly stamps to further demonstrate their understanding of number bonds.

Next, we also played a number bonds bowling game to find different ways to make 15. The children arranged 15 plastic cups to represent the bowling pins and used a tennis ball to hit the plastic cups. They learned to decompose 15 into 2 smaller numbers by counting the number of cups that fell and the number of cups that remained standing in the two smaller circles on their number bonds recording sheet. The children did a fantastic job in finding as many combinations of 15 as they possibly can!

Till the next post!