Inspired by this pin, I planned this activity during my full control period. Preparation included cutting out the pieces of paper and writing the children's names, adding a heading to the page and gathering your glue, scissors and permanent marker.
I sat the children down and began by talking about our other graphs and what we measured on them and what we were going to measure on the new graph. I placed the names on the ground and asked the children to come out one by one and see which one belonged to them.
They then stood out the front and counted the letters in their own name. I then cut out the individual letters and the children all called out what letter I should glue up.
After gluing the letters on, there was some discussion about who had the most letters and who had the least. We also compared whose names had the same amount and the same letters.
At the end, we counted up the letters in everyone's names and I wrote it in marker down the right hand side. After drawing in the grid lines, labeling the axis and underlining the heading, the final product was ready to be tacked onto the door with our other graphs...
This activity incorporated so many concepts including:
- graphing
- spelling
- counting
- information representation
- word recognition
- number recognition
- comparison and contrast
Definitely one to try out again, perhaps with a little tweaking for the primary placement...
Miss Tracy xx
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