Learning Station - Counting Bears

We used dominoes and bears to practice subtraction.  (Kiddo:  "You mean take away?" - Yep!)  The kiddos picked out a domino, found the largest number and counted out that many bears.  Then they subtracted (or took away) the smaller number of bears.  

 The youngsters did addition and the toddlers sorted the bears by color.

Learning Station - Pipe Cleaner Addition

The kiddos got to try out our new adding sticks.  (Just wait, they'll soon become subtracting sticks too.)  They scootch the number of beads for the first numeral to the far left, next they scootch the number of beads for the second numeral.  Then they count the total number of beads on the left and write the total on their paper.  Smart kiddos! 

I got this fabulous idea from this source:  HERE!

The beads really worked great!  Each kiddos was successful in adding because it was all right there!  I was at the table to assist, and to take a peek and make sure they had the correct number of beads.