We practiced addition sentences by working in pairs to shake a cup of ten pennies, drop them, and sort them into heads and tails. Students wrote an addition sentence of how many heads plus how many tails. They knew their "all together" number had to be ten since everyone started with only ten pennies. We practiced sight words by handing each student a card with a sight word written on it. We all sang a song, and as students heard their word, they brought the card forward and then we finger spelled the word.