Casper

Students bring in their favorite color apple and graph the results. Included in this attachment is a ready-made parent letter and a ready-to-use graph for students to graph the class results. Use this lesson in the fall (September 26th is Johnny Appleseed's birthday) to introducing graphs and math language like "more than," "less than," "equal," etc.

This book contains a fun 100 "fill in the blank" sentence for children to get creative with. This book allows students to draw/write 100 things that they would like to have, would NOT like to have, would like to smell, would NOT like to smell, etc.

Survey the class giving them 2 options. (ie: Are you right-handed or left-handed? Do you like Winter or Summer better? Do you like white chocolate or milk chocolate better?). Use tally marks to record each student's response. Transfer that data to this ready-made graph. Students write a title and labels, analyze the class data to create a bar graph, then answer simple questions. The graph is generic enough to use with any 2 choice survey question, but detailed enough to be effective. (There are

Use this activity on the 100th day of school.Set the timer for 100 seconds and have your students do the activities before the timer goes off.