Number bonds (sums with 8)

• Students will use pictures and counting strategies to add two groups of objects within 10.
• Students will write addition equations to match picture representations.
• Students will understand addition as putting together two groups to find a total.

These adding with pictures worksheets for kindergarten give little learners their first taste of addition using the most natural tool available: counting pictures. Students look at groups of familiar objects, count each group, combine them, and write the total. Our picture addition worksheets make the concept of addition visual and concrete before any memorization of facts is required. Students also begin connecting the picture story to an addition equation, learning what the + and = symbols mean through repeated, picture-supported experience. Adding with pictures is the foundation of all the addition work that follows in kindergarten and 1st grade.

Read each problem as a story with your child: "Here are 3 butterflies. Here are 2 more butterflies. How many butterflies are there altogether?" Having them touch each picture as they count reinforces one-to-one correspondence. After counting, help them write the equation that matches what they just did. Keep a small set of counters (beans, pennies, blocks) nearby so children who need more support can model the problem with real objects before writing their answer.

K.OA.A.1 requires kindergarteners to represent addition and subtraction with objects, fingers, mental images, drawings, sounds, acting out situations, verbal explanations, expressions, or equations. Picture addition worksheets directly target this standard, using drawings to make the operation of addition visible and accessible.