Morah stood tall like a tree waving in the breeze and many leaves fell to the ground all around. We pretended to rake them up into piles while noticing all the beautiful fall colors. There were green, yellow, orange, red, and pink leaves.
Morah wrote the names of each color on the dry erase board, and each child had a turn to come up and match the leaves to the appropriate column.
As the children continued to add their leaves to the graph, we compared the numbers of leaves in each column.. We discussed which column had the most leaves and which had the least.
Finally, we estimated the total number of leaves on the dry erase board and then we counted all the leaves to determine the actual number of leaves that were on the board…29!
The children seemed to easily grasp the concept of graphing. Morah introduced some new math terms as we graphed our leaves- column, row, least, most, middle, estimate, actual and compare.
Looking forward to see where this leaf exploration will take us next.
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