Count and Graph on the Farm

During our farm unit, I wanted to introduce some basic graphing. We've practiced counting before but we've never tried graphing that information. I created 5 different versions of count and graph on the farm to give us lots of practice. Each version includes a farm scene with different animals scattered around the farm and a matching count and graph sheet.

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First, I modeled for my daughter how to fill out the count and graph sheet. She counted the animals for me and I showed her how to write it on the count side. Then I showed her how to take those numbers and color in boxes vertically on the graph it side. Once my example was done, I let her try it with a different scene.

She went through and counted the animals and wrote the numbers down. For this scene she had to pay close attention because not all of the similar animals were next to each other as they had been in my example.

Once she had the numbers written in, she started graphing. She did a great job of coloring the boxes. We didn't go higher than 5 and had no more than 4 different animals in each scene. The only place where she got tricked was when the similar animals were spread out in the picture and she needed to change her numbers once she did her initial count. She caught the mistake all by herself and fixed it.

Now that she's experienced basic bar graphs, I'm excited to try it graphing other things around us and moving to picture graphs.

Do you want to count and graph on the farm? I've created our Count It! Graph It! Farm Edition as a freebie for you. Enter your name and email address into the form below and the file will be emailed to you.

This activity is part of our Preschool Farm Mini Unit that includes 9 farm related activities. You can find more about that unit HERE.

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