Look at the picture on our board: 3 apples and 2 bananas. Altogether means how many when we put both groups together. I wonder how many pieces of fruit that is altogether? How could we check?
Two groups of counters have joined on the ten-frame. Find each group, then count how many there are altogether.
Build each one on your own ten-frame too: the first group in red, the second in yellow.
Everyone builds at their own table, on a ten-frame with red and yellow counters.
Listen to the story. Put the first group on your frame in red. Put the second group in yellow. Count how many there are altogether.
Then one of us builds it on the board. Check that your frame looks the same.
We will build 2 and 3, then 4 and 2, then 5 and 4, then 1 and 6.
Join two sets
In your maths copy, draw 4 apples and 2 bananas as simple dots, one dot for each piece of fruit. Then write how many pieces of fruit there are altogether.
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