Counting Bears Graphing

The school year is coming to the end and I love no prep activities.  The following activities is one of those.

I grab a handful of my counting bears and create a cupful for each student.  They then sort them and graph based upon color.

There is a color graph if you can print in color or laminate them for a center or there is a black and white copy where students can color the bears the correct color by reading the color words and then graph.   It's a great end of year activity.

Check it out here at my TPT Store.

Easter Freebie

So I'm giving away a freebie in my TPT store. This Easter Egg Find and Graph comes in color or blackline and is a great activity for practicing making a bar graph.

Math: Bar Graphing

So my math curriculum this year is pretty weak and I find that I need to supplement a lot.  Isn't that the worst, though I am always thankful when it is a weak math curriculum as I find that the easiest to supplement.  Anyways a couple of weeks ago the lesson was to make a giant bar graph with the kids on the number of pockets they had and then to ask questions about the bar graph.  To which I felt the prep took more time than the actually lesson.  So I set out to find more activities for my kids to do and I could find many so I decided to make my own.

This simple activity requires this worksheet, dice, and crayons for each child.

This worksheet and a longer description can be found by clicking the link below.

Roll and Record

Here are some pictures of my kids playing the game.

After playing it my kids got the concept pretty quick after modeling it for them.  The only problem I found was the 2 of my kids completed the worksheet upside.

I also found this free pirate graphing activity from the Kindergarten Smorgasboard.  It takes a little more prep but my kids are obsessed with pirates so it was worth the extra effort so some fun graphing practice.

Mr. Greg's Pirate Graphing