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Valentine’s Day graphing printable

February 19, 2010 Ticia 12 Comments

I have two different versions of this Valentine’s Day graphing activity. When I originally wrote this post my kids were in preschool, and so our math was confined to learning to count and very simple math. Now they are older and long past being ready to graph.

 

Valentine's Day graphing printableSupplies for the older kid Valentine’s Day graphing activity

Valentine’s Day graphing printable (2 pages, traditional color graphing and more advanced word graphing), box of candy, something to write with

Valentine's Day graphing

The easy version is what I did way back when I was teaching with my first and second graders.  Count how many of each different type, graph, and compare.  My kids whipped through it in less than 5 minutes.

valentines graphing printable

The other side was trickier because they had to recognize what is an acronym and what might be text speak.  Especially since my kids don’t have cell phones yet.  But they had lots of fun comparing their Valentine’s Day graphs, and at first they was great consternation when they realized some candy boxes had more than others.  Great consternation.  Then the boys tried the candy and decided it tasted horrible.

 

This is our original Valentine graphing back when the kids were in preschool

Preschool Valentine’s Day graphing

preschool valentine's day graphing
Materials needed: box of conversation hearts, ten frame (basically a grid with two columns of five rows, you can see it in the picture)

 

 

Most of you have probably already done this, or are aware of this Valentine’s Day graphing activity.  Back when I was teaching we did a more complicated version in my first and second grade classrooms.  But, here’s the simple version.  And like I said my printer wouldn’t work that morning, so we just used some 10 frames.
Valentine's Day graphing candy pile1.  Give each child their box of Valentine’s candies and let them dump them out.  Ideally they haven’t dumped them out and poured them into one big bowl before you’ve done this.  Oh wait, that’s just what my kids did.
2.  Have them choose which one they think they have the most of.  In this pictures Superman guessed he had the most of blue.  Now, in reality I think he did this because he likes blue best, but hey who am I to spoil his predicting fun.
Valentine's Day graphing activity for preschool

3.  Now take each color one by one and put one in a square to count how many you have.  It’s always amazing to see the disparity of colors in the conversation heart boxes when you just randomly grab some.  I think Superman and Batman both had one purple and then Princess had 12.  It was kind of funny.

 

Valentine's Day estimation activity

4.  Next we estimated which jar could fit the most hearts.  I had two different types of baby food jars, some of the glass ones and some of the plastic.  We discovered the plastic jar held more.

And finally came the best part of this math experiment.  We tested which ones turned our tongues different colors.
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As you might guess that was their favorite part of the whole activity.  And wow is that an unattractive picture of me.  Seriously.  They were rather disappointed that most of them didn’t really change the color of their tongue.

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And, just for the sake of it, we did do a few other things this week.
We’ve learned a lot about Texas.
We made some rocket cars.
We dealt with grief.  Okay, that one should be present tense, and it also brings up all sorts of difficult questions about death.  The link is to the questions about my Dad’s death, but I’m not quite up to posting about their questions about Uncle Sam’s death.
So, it’s been busy here for the past few weeks.  It’s funny it really didn’t seem in the midst of all this that we really did all that much, but when I look back over, we actually did.
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Oh, and here’s the wonderful thing Princess figured out how to do……  There’s 10 pictures of me wincing as she brushes my hair.

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Comments

  1. Ticia says

    February 19, 2010 at 3:03 pm

    And I forgot to put in my post. And now is the perfect time to do this because you can get all of those boxes super cheap in Valentine clearance.

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  2. Debbie says

    February 19, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    Selena didn't like the valentine candies.LOL Great week!

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  3. Raising a Happy Child says

    February 19, 2010 at 4:29 pm

    We did some Valentine math here too with those hearts. I love predicting activities – so fun. The tongue pictures are hilarious.

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  4. Jenny says

    February 19, 2010 at 7:26 pm

    We did some valentine's math last year and Abby had so much fun!

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  5. Jolanthe says

    February 19, 2010 at 7:30 pm

    Valentine math is always yummy! 🙂 The pictures of your tongues are hilarious!

    Jolanthe

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  6. Wonder Mom says

    February 20, 2010 at 1:22 am

    I believe that your pic was going to be on the next Vogue, but they went with that pesky Heidi Klum instead, didn't they? (Man, those fashion mags DO NOT know what they are missing…)

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  7. Tot Play: A Learning Journey says

    February 22, 2010 at 3:32 pm

    I LOVED the tongue pics- SO SO funny! My daughter and I have done a lot of Valentine Math over the past three weeks too. We both love the M&Ms but we don't care for the conversation hearts. She nibbled it and spit it out. Great use of a ten frame!

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  8. Joyful Learner says

    March 27, 2010 at 3:59 am

    How did I miss this post? Very cool how much fun you have with your kids! If I had Photoshop, I would award you the “Great Mom” Award!

    Reply

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