Valentine Day Candy Fun (Part 2)

Were you shown a lot of Valentine’s Day love? Do you have a lot of left over candy? Well do not fret, I have a lesson that is educational, fun, and sweet, focusing onCCSS.Math.Content.2.MD.D.10.

You can students a variety of candy and have them represent the candy that they have with bar graph.  The students can work individual and then as a group. It is helpful to go from a tally chart to a bar.  The examples I found do not fit the Valentine’s Day theme, but you can modify the worksheets to work with the theme.

Sample Worksheets

https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http://www.snappymaths.com/other/handlingdata/barcharts/resources/fruittallybar.pdf

Individual Chart (Daniel)

Group Chart

Valentine’s Day Candy Fun (Part 1)

With Valentine’s Day being tomorrow, I wanted to share an idea with everyone that they could possibly use in their classroom for lower functioning students. Candy comes in all shapes and sizes.  But Valentine’s Day presents a unique time when heart candies are available as well  as usual circles or squares.  This is great opportunity to help students not just differentiate shapes, but dimensions as well.

Here are a few worksheets  that can ensure kids are ready for the activity:

 

Candy Game/Activity

Give students pictures of shapes( 2 dimensional) and a variety of candy( 3 dimensional).  The students have to correctly identify the flat objects vs.  the 3 dimensional counter parts.  Students need to correctly identify the correct amount they were given. And of course, they then can enjoy a well deserved treat.

Examples:

Circles : Ferrero Rocher, Lindor, Whoppers

Squares: Ghiradelli/Starburst

Rectangles: Candy Bars (Twix, Snickers, Butterfinger, MilkyWay)

Ovals: M&Ms, Skittles

Hearts: Sour Patch Valentine’s Hearts, Conversation Hearts, any chocolate in a heart shape

An additional resource to enforce this concept is Summertime  Spot the Shapes game  www.education.com

Impromptu ITDY Project

Do you ever end up with students that you were prepped to teach?  My  teacher was absent yesterday.  My colleagues  and I decided to keep our students together who tend to have behavioral outburst when their schedule is changed (transitioning). After the students went through their morning routine, we created an ITDY project.  In honor of Black History Month, we had students color a page from www.doodle-art-alley.com.   We then had students identify certain letters and count them.  Then, they wrote sentences to reflect what they found.  While this may seem as though it was a simple activity, this project encompassed the following standards:

CCSS.ELA.-Literacy.WK.2

CCSS.ELA.-Literacy.WK.8

CCSS.ELA.-Literacy.RF.K.1.D

CCSS.ELA.-Literacy.L.K.1.F

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.A.3

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.B.4(A-C)

CCSS.Math.Content.K.CC.C.6

CCSS.Math.Content.K.MD.B.3

The level of difficulty could also be increased by specifying particular colors that certain letters should be colored in.

Check out some works samples from 2 of my students.  I am very proud of them.