Thanksgiving Graphing With Food!

During the busy school year it was always difficult for me to fit in any teacher-created kind of lessons into the classroom.  In a world where teachers are encouraged to follow scripted programs, it was a challenge to add any theme units.  But I always found that I could supplement the programs during the holidays with a theme that tied into the core skills and concepts that the students were learning.  The easiest way for me to do this was to add a data day to the plans to practice, reteach, or extend learning for students as needed.  I created this Thanksgiving data day packet because the Everyday Math Grade 1 Program based a lesson or two on favorite food graphing around this time already.  So it tied in with instruction perfectly!

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I found that there were no resources out there at the time to teach this unit.  So I created my own clip art and worksheets to put one together.  Here is how the unit is put together:

1)  Talk about students' favorite thanksgiving foods.  Then have them choose 1 favorite from the printable to cut out.

2)  Have the class assemble a Class Pictograph of their favorite foods.  Then the students can use this Class Graph to answer questions on the worksheets I created.

3)  Students can transfer the Class Graph onto a bar graph for independent graphing practice.

4)  Have students work in small groups or with a partner to do a probability spin.  This will work nicely to reinforce the concept of probability and an understanding of how to use it in a game.  All you need is the worksheet, a paperclip, and pencils.  Then the students can practice tally marks to record the probability spins.

5) I made additional math worksheets that I thought would be useful with this theme.  Once I created this clip art I got a kick out of all the worksheets and activities I could create for supplementation for the math program.  I created number story practice, addition/subtraction work, tally mark practice, pattern recognition, numeration worksheets, etc.

 

6)  Last, I made a whole bunch of activities and worksheets to go with the language arts program.

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