Teddy Bear Picnic Graph

                                                                        

                                              Teddy Bear Picnic

    To end our bear unit, we celebrated with a teddy bear picnic. The Bunnies decided that we needed to graph all of the "quiet friends," aka stuffed animals, who attended our picnic. One of our favorite authors is Karma Wilson, so we had to read her book Bear Counts, and it was a big hit. 

                                                

                                     

     Graphing has become one of our standard math routines. We're mathematicians and scientists, so we love our data collection. We love talking about our data even more because we get to share what we've learned and what others think. We started on the first day of school with our names and progressed to graphing our "quiet friends" at our picnic. We take clipboards out to the playground during recess to collect information from other classrooms. We started to compare our results with others. *A future post will reveal more! 

          They learned that we had more "wild animals" and bears at our picnic than any other creature. We were surprised that we had an equal amount of "fantasy friends" and Sonic characters. They were making comparisons and debating how to name each group. It was fun listening to them decide how to organize their quiet friends. 

         To end our day, we used bear counters, dice, and caves to have bear-counting fun. 

                                                                     

                                                Roll the dice and add bears to the cave.

                                         There was sorting by color, shape, and size too. 

                                              We "bearly" had enough time to finish!