We finally had our Valentine’s Party this past Tuesday since Friday was a snow day and Monday was an teacher in-service day. It was hectic, but the kids had fun! 🙂 We estimated how many candy conversation hearts would fit on a paper heart. Then we put our candy hearts on the paper heart, counted how many fit, and recorded the actual answer. Several of the kiddos made GREAT guesses-like 11 as a guess and 13 fit! WOW! But, some of them were waaaaaay off! 🙂 Thinking back on this activity I know that I should begin estimation earlier in the year and do it on a regular basis in many ways and with a reference point. Hmmm-will definitely change that for next year. Anyway, after this we sorted our candy hearts by color and then made individual graphs. We have done graphs in the past so this was easy for them! I am posting some pictures for you to see what the activities looked like.
Here are some pictures of the kid during these activities:
We gave out our valentines to our friends-this took AWHILE with 26 kinders, but it ended up going well!! We had a party later on with cupcakes and candy galore. I’m glad I got to send them home after that!! 🙂 Here are some pictures from the party. We had to pretend to nap on the rug(we don’t nap in kindergarten at my school) so that I could get the goodies on the tables!
I took pictures of 3 tables and then my batteries died! Wouldn’t you know?! 🙂