Skills Covered

How to Use This Pack

Five pages of picture graphs, one box for each thing. Page 1 starts with a worked example, then students count a group of apples, bananas and strawberries, color one box in the graph for each fruit, and circle the fruit there is the most of. Page 2 is a finished picture graph of class pets (dogs, cats, fish and birds): write how many dogs and cats, then circle the pet with the most and the one with the fewest. On page 3 students sort toys (balls, teddy bears, ducks and cars) into a graph and answer more-or-fewer questions by circling a picture. Page 4 reads a weather graph of sunny, cloudy, rainy and snowy days, including which two kinds of weather happened on the same number of days. Page 5 graphs a class vote: each child names a favorite fruit in a speech bubble, and students graph the votes and answer three questions.

In the Classroom

Make a real-object graph first: line up shoes, crayons or blocks in rows on the floor, one row for each kind, and ask which row is longest. Then move to the pages, reading each question aloud. On page 5, take a vote of your own class and graph it on the board the same way.

At Home

Sort socks, toys or snacks into kinds and line them up in rows to see which kind has the most. Look out the window each morning for a week and keep your own weather graph, one box for each day.

Tips for Success

• Cross off each picture as you count it so you do not count it twice
• Color one box for each thing, starting at the picture and going right with no gaps
• The longest row has the most; the shortest row has the fewest
• To compare two rows, look at where each row ends
• Count the boxes in a row to check how many