Thursday, November 4, 2010

Graphing

Today we worked on our graphing skills. Graphing is imporant for your Kindergardener becasue;
  • Learn the characteristics of a graph
  • Record data
  • Help to organize information on a graph
  • Discuss, compare and contrast information presented in graphs
  • Answer and formulate questions about graphs
  • Count, add and subtract
  • Understand the concept of and use language to describe "how many more than", "least, between and greatest", "same or equal to", greater, more, most, less, fewer, and smallest
  • Engage in comprehension enhancing strategies, such as Think-Pair-Share
  • Learn new vocabulary from repeated activities with student generated word lists