I also use dominoes to review simple addition. Students pick dominoes from a bag. They draw the domino and write the number sentence.

Every day we do a dice roll activity as part of our morning calendar routine. We roll two large foam dice (dots) and they tell me the addition sentence. They color in a box for that sum on a graph in their calendar binder. Later in the year, we switch to dice with numbers. There are several different dice roll addition games like Bump… that my students love to play.

We do a lot with five-frames and ten-frames. We use two-color counters to find all the ways to make a target sum. For example: For the sum of 5, we start fill the five-frame or the ten-frame with five yellow counters. Sometimes I have them tell me the number sentence. Other times I have them record the number sentence. For example 5 yellow + 0 red = 5 in all. Then we turn over one yellow counter, so now it is 4 yellow + 1 red = 5 and so on…

We practice turn around facts using clothespins and a hanger. I put some clothespins on one side. There is a plus sign in the middle that I made out of masking tape. Then I put clothespins on the other side. They tell me the addition sentence. Then I flip the hanger. They tell me the turn around fact.

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