Here is one on the board. Read it with me. The end of it is hiding under a flap.

What could be missing at the end? How do you know?

Here are three number stories, already built on the ten-frame. Listen to each story. After each one, we say its number sentence together.

Say it two ways: with plus and equals, and with and and the same as.

Aoife has 4 conkers. She finds 3 more.

6 children are on the bench. 2 more sit down.

5 swallows sit on the wire. 5 more land beside them. Watch this one carefully: five and five, and both sides of the equals sign match.

The + sign joins two parts. The = sign means both sides are the same.

Now you are the number sentence! Listen to each story. We act it out at the front. Then five of you stand in a row and hold up the sentence on big cards, and we all read it two ways.

• 3 children stand at the door. 4 more join them.
• 5 books are on the table. 2 more go beside them.
• 6 pencils are in the pot. 3 more go in.
• 4 children sit on the floor. 4 more sit down.