Five for Friday - Number Bonds Edition

I'm in a Linky mood tonight!  I am now linking up with Doodle Bugs for another fun linky. I love to visit all the great bloggers who link up, and my "following" list is growing.  (Hint, hint... If you follow me, I'll follow you.  Just leave me a comment & I'll pop over to your blog.)

 This past week my Kinders have been hard at work making number bonds and transcribing them into number sentences.  They have really grasped onto the concept and have had fun spotting number bonds in our environment!  Here are five things we did this week.

1.  We collaborated to make number bond posters.  The kiddos enjoy working together to make  posters for our Focus Wall.

 2.  We used these super cute work mat and animals from Learning Resources to make number bonds.  (Number card is an oldy-moldy card left over from our Saxon math series.  We use them all the time!)

 3.  Piggy number bonds!  Using tiny pigs to act out part-part-whole is lots of fun!  I have number bond flash cards available on my TpT store.  HERE

 4.  Flipping number bonds.  We flipped ten coins to complete the number bonds: part were heads, part were tails.  This was definitely a noisy activity, but they had lots of fun.  It was cute how excited they got when then got "doubles!"  There is something extra fun when you add the same number twice.  :-)

 5.  Looking for number bonds.  We took advantage of the beautiful weather one day and took a walk.  With "clipboards" (paper secured by a wooden clothespin onto their white boards) in hand, we went out to search for number bonds around the school.  The cars below were perfect:  2 silver cars and 1 blue car make 3 cars!  After we came inside the search continued.  While seated one student exclaimed, "We have a number bond at our table!  Two girls and two boys make four kids!"

I really can count.  Really!  I know this is #6, but I wanted to share the activity we did in our math station this week.  Get your freebie here.