Description
Bring joyful learning to your math block with this set of apple-themed addition activities.
These four engaging games give students plenty of concrete experience combining two groups, recognising number sentences and building fluency with addition to 10 (and beyond for one game).
Perfect for rotations, small groups and independent math workshop time.
What’s Included:
Each game features:
- Teaching tips page
- Detailed instruction sheet
- Game cards
- A recording or follow-up worksheet
- A cover page for storage and organisation
Apple Draw More also includes a one-page quick math craft for students to colour and cut.
The Four Games Inside:
- Adding Apples – Students use apple cards to model and solve addition problems (to 10).
- Apple Tree Addition – Learners roll two dice and add to find the total (to 12).
- Apple Match – Students match problem and answer cards to show understanding of addition (to 10).
- Apple Draw More – Learners draw extra apple seeds with dry-erase markers to complete each addition and show the total.
Skills Students Will Practise:
- Combine two groups to make a total
- Build fluency with addition within 10
- Recognise and interpret the + symbol
- Begin developing early mental strategies
- Use hands-on tools to support number understanding
Why Teachers Love This Pack:
- Ready to print and instantly engaging
- Ideal for small-group work, centers or independent rotations
- Supports students transitioning from concrete models to symbolic addition
- Clean layouts and bright themes add joy to your math lessons
- Includes options for modelling, matching, drawing and recording
Suggested Classroom Uses:
- Introduce each game during guided math, then place in centers.
- Assign Apple Match for partner work to build math talk.
- Use Apple Tree Addition as a warm-up before addition instruction.
- Add recording pages to math journals.
- Provide Apple Draw More during intervention sessions for hands-on reinforcement.
- Create a seasonal Apple Addition Station for repeated practice.
- Store each game in a labelled pouch with the included cover page.
This cheerful collection of apple-themed games provides meaningful, hands-on practice that helps young learners understand, model and enjoy addition—making it a perfect fit for early number classrooms.
Click here to return to my store home page
Find more fun games, centers, printables, worksheets and crafts for ADDITION in my TpT store HERE!
This resource is for single teacher classroom use only. Please remember that sharing, redistributing, creation of new materials for sale, or uploading to shared drives or websites is not permitted. Your respect for the one teacher, one license policy allows small teacher-creators like me to keep making resources for classrooms around the world. Thank you for your kindness and understanding!
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Description
Bring joyful learning to your math block with this set of apple-themed addition activities.
These four engaging games give students plenty of concrete experience combining two groups, recognising number sentences and building fluency with addition to 10 (and beyond for one game).
Perfect for rotations, small groups and independent math workshop time.
What’s Included:
Each game features:
- Teaching tips page
- Detailed instruction sheet
- Game cards
- A recording or follow-up worksheet
- A cover page for storage and organisation
Apple Draw More also includes a one-page quick math craft for students to colour and cut.
The Four Games Inside:
- Adding Apples – Students use apple cards to model and solve addition problems (to 10).
- Apple Tree Addition – Learners roll two dice and add to find the total (to 12).
- Apple Match – Students match problem and answer cards to show understanding of addition (to 10).
- Apple Draw More – Learners draw extra apple seeds with dry-erase markers to complete each addition and show the total.
Skills Students Will Practise:
- Combine two groups to make a total
- Build fluency with addition within 10
- Recognise and interpret the + symbol
- Begin developing early mental strategies
- Use hands-on tools to support number understanding
Why Teachers Love This Pack:
- Ready to print and instantly engaging
- Ideal for small-group work, centers or independent rotations
- Supports students transitioning from concrete models to symbolic addition
- Clean layouts and bright themes add joy to your math lessons
- Includes options for modelling, matching, drawing and recording
Suggested Classroom Uses:
- Introduce each game during guided math, then place in centers.
- Assign Apple Match for partner work to build math talk.
- Use Apple Tree Addition as a warm-up before addition instruction.
- Add recording pages to math journals.
- Provide Apple Draw More during intervention sessions for hands-on reinforcement.
- Create a seasonal Apple Addition Station for repeated practice.
- Store each game in a labelled pouch with the included cover page.
This cheerful collection of apple-themed games provides meaningful, hands-on practice that helps young learners understand, model and enjoy addition—making it a perfect fit for early number classrooms.
Click here to return to my store home page
Find more fun games, centers, printables, worksheets and crafts for ADDITION in my TpT store HERE!
This resource is for single teacher classroom use only. Please remember that sharing, redistributing, creation of new materials for sale, or uploading to shared drives or websites is not permitted. Your respect for the one teacher, one license policy allows small teacher-creators like me to keep making resources for classrooms around the world. Thank you for your kindness and understanding!
