Match, Sort and Graph!

Game playing is a great way to review skills AND teach good sportsmanship.  Sometimes we play "winning" games with teams and other times we try to complete the challenge within a certain amount of time, winning as a class.  Any Memory style activity, like this one with matching apples,  promotes  visual recall and paying attention.

Hooray for Sophia...she made our first match.

Stopping to think before just quickly picking/playing is important
and Lukas certainly seems to have mastered that idea!

Graphing entails the ability to sort items into different groups and gain information from that visual sorting.
Charlie is carefully studying the apples.  There are so many ways to sort the apples and we wanted to challenge the children to think of different ways beyond the common color or size variables.

We decided to sort by stem or no stem.

Jack and Anna add their apples to the correct column.

One more apple in the no stem group.

At the end, Charlie added the last apple and could tell us easily that both groups were the same.