File Folder Game – My Bug Jar (Early Math Skills)
Using materials from Take It To Your Seat Math Centers (K-1) from Evan-Moor Educational Publishers (just this activity is available for download for just a few dollars as well), Â some extra bugs that I’m sure I downloaded on 4share.com, but can’t find now, contact paper to “laminate” and improve durability, and markers to decorate, I set up this file folder game.Â
I made way more bugs than we would need for Kidlet’s purpose (early addition), because I figure someday baby L can use them for sorting and creating patterns (things that kidlet is well beyond needing practice at doing)
Kidlet takes a handful of bugs and puts them in the jar, counts how many of each type there are, and writes that in the box, then repeats it in the number sentance at the bottom, and totals it up.
I’ve gotten a FFG done for subtraction as well. I’ll see about getting that one posted shortly.
This year my boy’s teacher added graphing to the mix.. he can mark an “x” in each box of a simple bar graph for the number of items and see visually how each compares to the other.
Love the cute bug jar idea!!
They do very basic graphing in kidlets kindergarten class. They do poll type questions (do you like pumpkin pie? which oregon football team are you rooting for, beavers or ducks? – that kind of thing) and then as a class they make a bar graph. very basic!