Name Graphing

It has been a very long time since I've posted, but a lot has changed as to where I am at in my life.  Since the last time I posted, I am no longer in a school district, but a all behavior classroom in a treatment facility.  Let me tell you that I crave behaviors.  We all have a passion and something that drives us with our teaching and with me it's behaviors.  I resigned early from my last position early due to the last school not following special education laws and I have worked way to hard for my license.  So, anyways I am now in an all behavior classroom with ages 9-14 year olds and I absolutely love it!!!  Everyday is something new and brings a challenge.  It's like being in a special education classroom, because the students are all at different levels.

Anyways, with math I wanted to do a class activity with graphing, because not all the kids understood the concept and so I began my search online.  I found a picture of a worksheet where they took the names of the students in the class and tally how many letters in the upper top of the worksheet.  So, if they had 3 letter's they put one mark in that box...if they had 6 letters in their name they put a tally mark in that box and so on.  Once they completed that, they went to the bottom and started to graph it.  The student's really enjoyed this activity.  My next project I want to do with my students is with M & M's and then something with the presidential election and the state's they been going too.

I am going to link up the worksheet and feel free to use it.  Also, there is a cute book you can read to your class called, "The Great Graph Contest" by Loreen Leedy.

 

Name Graph Worksheet

 

Happy Learning!!!

Shannon