Today was our first lesson in Phase 2 thinking about adding a two digit number to a one digit number, and even two 2digit numbers together to find the total. We thought about the different words for add, we came up with, total, adding, together, part + part = whole, more, altogether, whole. Lots of ways to say add!

We used dienes to first partition numbers into tens and ones, we then set it out on a place value chart and found the total. We worked hard to move from dienes to drawing the tens and ones, can you spot our hard work?