Teachers

Can you use coins?? Or something else??
Are you not into the food thing or your school doesnt allow it?

I was a sub for three years before Alex came around and one of the teachers used smarties candies, all color coordinated. Another used pennies, pins, and paper clips..

Hope that helps

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Posted by christy

I always do this in december with dreydels! The kids love it!

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What are those?

I am being observed on Thursday and he mentioned he doesn't like using food in lessons because it leaves out kids with allergies, diabetes, etc. There are no kids in theis class with any food concerns but I still thik I should stay away from it

The class is a 6th grade SPED class. They really need the basics. I was also thinking maybe I could use the weather and give them a piece of the newspaper with the weather for the US.....would that work?

I hate being new at this

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Posted by Betty



The class is a 6th grade SPED class. They really need the basics. I was also thinking maybe I could use the weather and give them a piece of the newspaper with the weather for the US.....would that work?

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If they really need the basics, then maybe this would be a little overwhelming for them, but at the same time, it might be good because it's more involved and not on an elementary level. What about if you have them do shoe sizes in the class, so they have to record data, then tally it. Something like that with two steps might be good. Or maybe give them magnets and a list of magnetic and non-magnetic things in the classroom and they have to figure out which is which, then do some sort of tally?

Can you have the kids go around and poll other classes? They can create their own survey quesiotn to ask , like favorite sport etc. We do this (I've done it with 4th and 6th graders, regular ed and Special ed.)
Or they can tally eye color, birthday month, etc for their class.
The weather might be a little abstract if they are Special Ed kids, sometimes they need that concrete example in front of them. What if you kept tally of the weather outside YOUR room for a couple of weeks, if you have time before this lesson comes up.

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Posted by Finoflynn

Can you have the kids go around and poll other classes? They can create their own survey quesiotn to ask , like favorite sport etc. We do this (I've done it with 4th and 6th graders, regular ed and Special ed.)
Or they can tally eye color, birthday month, etc for their class.
The weather might be a little abstract if they are Special Ed kids, sometimes they need that concrete example in front of them. What if you kept tally of the weather outside YOUR room for a couple of weeks, if you have time before this lesson comes up.

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The problem is my observation is on Thursday. I also like the idea of the students taking a poll of others in their grade (although I don't know how well it would work). It's hard to tally anything in our room alone b/c there are only 8 of them. I think I will do that the following week when we start graphing.

This lesson is just really the very beginning of graphing, just the tally and frequency charts. I thought maybe I would give them about 10-15 cities and the paper. They would have to locate the city and report their weather. Then they would have to make up a tally/frequency chart.

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Posted by Betty


This lesson is just really the very beginning of graphing, just the tally and frequency charts. I thought maybe I would give them about 10-15 cities and the paper. They would have to locate the city and report their weather. Then they would have to make up a tally/frequency chart.

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I really think that this might be a little too advanced for a beginning graphing lesson. First, what kind of graph are you trying to get them to produce? I can help you more if I know that. I know I am a music teacher, but I also teach enrichment in our school and I just got done with a beginner graphing unit.