Addition War

Skills: Addition to 18
Players: 2
Cards: Ace (1) through 9
Getting Started: Players will divide the cards evenly among themselves.
Each player will turn over 2 cards and add them together.
The highest sum wins and gets all 4 cards.
In the even of a tie, WAR is declared and each player
deals out two more cards and adds them together.
The highest sum wins all the cards.
Play continues until one player has collected all the
cards.
**Try these variations: Subtraction War, 3 Addend War, Place Value War,
Multiplication War



Domino Addition

Skills: Addition
Players: One or more
Materials: Dominoes
Getting Started: Turn over dominoes face down.
Take turns turning over the dominoes one at a time.
Add together to 2 sides of the domino.



What's In Your Wallet?

Skills: Counting Coins
Materials: Change from your purse, pocket, jar, etc.
Getting Started: Dump some change out on the table and have your child
count the money. This will not only help them with coin
identification, but also with addition skills.
**Help them practice skip counting by nickels (5's), dimes (10's), quarters
(25's), and half-dollars (50's). This will help tremendously with their
speed and accuracy!



Songs and Poems to help with money...

Tune: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star

Penny, penny easily spent
Copper brown and worth 1 cent.

Nickel, nickel, thick and fat
You're worth 5 cents, I know that!

Dime, dime, little and thin,
I remember, you're worth ten.

Quarter, quarter, big and bold,
You're worth 25 cents I'm told.

Half-a-dollar, half-a-dollar, giant size,
50 cents to buy some fries.

Dollar, dollar, green and long,
Worth 100 cents, you can't go wrong.



Coin Combinations

5 pennies make a nickel
2 nickels make a dime
2 dimes and a nickel
Make a quarter every time.

4 quarters make a dollar
and that is quite a lot.
And a dollar in my pocket
is exactly what I've got!