6 + 3
Today we'll add numbers within ten. Imagine you have six red apples.
Here are our six apples. Let's count them: one, two, three, four, five, six.
Now a friend gives you three more green apples.
How many apples do we have in all? Let's write it as six plus three.
We start at six because we already have six apples.
Count on one more: seven.
Count on again: eight.
And one more: nine.
We landed on nine. So six plus three equals nine.
Six plus three is nine. You added within ten. Great job!