NUMBER BONDS COLLAGE – Shape, Colour, Contrast

Students will be able to:

• use cutting and gluing skills to create a mixed media collage;
• create images of number bonds for a specific number;
• cut out organic shapes;
• explain the meaning of number bond;
• demonstrate technical accomplishment and creativity.

Have students:

• work with a partner
• use a book such as Number Bond Friends, by Jessie Wilson as inspiration to create rhymes about number bonds;
• illustrate their rhymes;
• create a dance to accompany their rhymes;
• present their work to the class.

1. Download and display the Colour, Shape, and Contrast posters available on this website.
   - review or teach the elements of colour and shape – primary colours, organic and geometric shapes
   - review or teach the principle of contrast – extreme differences
2. Teach or review number bonds - pairs of numbers that add up to a specific number.
   - group counters into 2 groups
   - chart the different ways to make 2 groups of a number of objects
   - write the number bonds on a chart or whiteboard
   - write number sentences for number bonds
3. Gather and make available books about numbers and shapes, e.g., Number Bond Friends, by Jessie Wilson; Love, Triangle, by Marcie Colleen and Bob Shea; Swatch: The Girl Who Loved Color, by Julia Denos; One Was Johnny: A Counting Book, by Maurice Sendak: Caps for Sale, by Esphyr Slobodkina; Bird Watch, by Christie Matheson; and Circle, Square, Moose, by Kelly Bingham, illustrated by Paul O. Zelinsky.
4. Download and play Number Bonds songs from the Internet, e.g.,
   Secret Agent Number Bond
   Number Bonds - Jack Hartman
   Number Bond Song

1. Conduct a read-aloud with the book Number Bond Friends, by Jessie Wilson.
2. Have students make up rhymes for other number bonds, e.g., Five - 1 and 4 a starting to snore; 4 and 1 are having fun!
3. Have students sing and move to a Number Bonds songs such as Number Bonds - Jack Hartman.
4. Introduce the challenge.

1. Have students work with a partner. Ask them to share:
   - things they like best about their collages
   - two things that are the same about their collages
   - two things that are different about their collages
   - how they showed the number bonds
2. Invite some students to share with the whole class.

1. Observe students as they work – thoughtful focus, discriminating, seeking more information, elaborating, experimenting.
2. Observe students as they discuss their collages – speaks with a clear voice, looks at audience while speaking, points to areas in the collage, provides accurate information, answers questions from the audience effectively.
3. Observe students as they listen – looks at presenter, asks effective questions, supports ideas with evidence found in the artwork.
4. Use a checklist to track progress. (Download - NumberBonds_tracking.pdf)
5. Have students in grade 1 use the self-assessment form to evaluate their work. (Downloads - NumberBonds_self-assessment.pdf)