Hershey’s Kisses
Addition Facts Project
by Mrs. Peterson’s 1st grade students
at Nipomo Elementary School
Nipomo, CA
After a reading of the Hershey Kisses
Addition book the students were given
Hershey kisses and hugs to use for finding
combinations for making the sums of 3 to
10. Here is a display of all the ways they
found to make the sum of 5.
Students shared their combinations which were
entered on a big chart. As they worked the
students noticed a pattern in the number of
different combinations and were able to
make correct predictions about how many
combinations for the next sum.
After completing the chart the students
gathered around the computer and helped
the teacher put in the data about the
number of combinations for the different
sums. A graph was made with that data
which showed that for each subsequent
sum the number of combinations increased
by one more.
three 3 4 How many ways to make ...
four 4 5 12
11
five 5 6 10
9
10
# of ways
8
six 6 7 8
6
7
seven 7 8
6
5
4
4
eight 8 9 2
nine 9 10 0
three 3 four 4 five 5 six 6 seven 7 eight 8 nine 9 ten 10
ten 10 11 the sums
The students finally got to eat their hugs and
kisses while they played the Hershey Kisses
counting game where they had to figure out
how many more were needed to make 5--an
enjoyable application of what they had
learned. The students all agreed that this was
a fun and yummy way to learn about addition.