Addition = ???

I love looking at my students 1st grade math journals and scanning through their work to see how they are developing their understanding of this amazing subject.   The use of mathematical words come to my attention as I scan through their written word problems.  Reflecting on my 10-11 school year teaching, I find that I have to do lots of modeling, repetition and give time (practice) for my students to use mathematical vocabulary.

The following are snipets of words I've found in their math journal that automatically tells them to use the operation of addition to solve the word problem:

7 girls joined them...
if the pattern continues...
will have hatched altogether...
gave him 9 pencils....
he buys 4 more bales of hay...
she placed 6 books...
Maria puts on 5 bracelets...


What others words have you seen your students use for addition?