Dog's Colorful Day: Part 2

Fun with Dog: Math

One of our first math activities was to count Dog's spots.  Of course, in the book, he has 10...but we created a game in which we had to determine the number of spots by completing an addition problem.  We are learning and practicing the strategy of counting on, so this was the perfect opportunity to use that strategy.

The munchkins loved playing and adding the correct number of pom spots.



After playing the classroom version of this game, each munchkin made his or her own..complete with a bag full of poms to take home!

(or to play with during free time!)

We spent much of our math time during this unit working on different types of graphs. 

We graphed the favorite color of all our friends...

Which was the favorite?  We had way too many columns that were the same.

Of course, any munchkin knows that the math word for that is "equal".

We had some fun with a bag full of skittles Dog's spots, too.

Everyone sorted their colors, tallied them on the recording sheet and then transferred those tallies into a bar graph.

Now that graph had a bit more to analyze!

Probably the most fun, however, was the taste test!

All the munchkins had the chance to taste each skittle flavor and choose one favorite taste.

Everyone had to collect data from their friends and record it on a data sheet.





That data was then transferred to a graph, too.  It was a little harder to keep track of, but the munchkins did a great job!

And although this has nothing to do with math...

We ended with a fun visitor!

"Dog" himself...or at least his stand-in Otis!

Thanks for visiting, Otis.  We love you!

Until next time...

Giggles,

Mrs. D.