Each page is a winter picture with small shapes hidden on it and a bar graph underneath, one row for each kind of shape. Children find a shape, color one box in its row, and keep going until every shape is found; then they write how many in the box at the end of the row. The pages get harder as they go: page 1 has two kinds of shape on a snowman, pages 2 and 3 have three kinds on a polar bear and a snow globe, and pages 4 to 6 have four kinds on an igloo with an arctic fox, a mug of hot cocoa with a pile of snowballs, and a snowshoe hare with a baby seal, with counts up to 10.
Model the first page together: point to a star, color a box in the star row, and cross the star out so it is not counted twice. Then let children work in pairs, one finding and one coloring. When the graph is done, ask which shape there is the most of, which the fewest, and how many more stars than hearts. The black-and-white copy has white shapes to color as well.
Have your child cross out or color each shape as they count it, so none is counted twice. When the graph is done, ask which row is longest, and check by counting the shapes in the picture again.
This pack supports the following Common Core State Standards for Mathematics:
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Count and graph pages with stars, hearts, circles and other shapes hidden on a snowman, a polar bear, a snow globe, an igloo, a mug of hot cocoa and an arctic fox. Children find and count each kind of shape, color a box on the bar graph for each one and write how many.
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