📝 Product Description

This Combining Collections worksheet is a simple and effective extension activity designed to support early addition skills in Kindergarten / Early Stage 1.

Students combine two collections and record the total using a number sentence format:
___ and ___ makes ___

This resource is ideal for:

• Maths rotations
  
• Small group instruction
  
• Early finishers
  
• Intervention or consolidation
  
• Assessment evidence
  

The open-ended format allows students to use concrete materials, drawings, or mental strategies to demonstrate their understanding.

✅ What’s Included

• ✔ 1 x Combining Collections worksheet
  
• ✔ Repeated number sentence format for multiple attempts
  
• ✔ Clear, child-friendly layout
  
• ✔ Printable PDF
  
• ✔ Extension version included
  

🎯 Skills Covered

• Combining two groups
  
• Early addition concepts
  
• Number sense
  
• Recording simple number sentences
  
• Mathematical reasoning (explaining totals)
  

👩‍🏫 Grade Level

• Kindergarten
  
• Early Stage 1
  
• Foundation / Prep (AU-aligned)
  

📚 Curriculum Links (Optional but powerful)

NSW Mathematics – Early Stage 1

• Represents and combines groups to model addition
  
• Uses concrete materials and representations to solve number problems
  

(You can keep this general — TPT buyers like seeing curriculum language.)