Glyph it Up!

Glyphs are probably my single favorite math activity. Who doesn't love a standard-aligned activity that includes listening, following directions, collecting data, and graphing while simultaneously providing a showy hallway display? I created my very own First Day of School glyph using clip art from Karen's Kids. What fun!

I used black line clip art to create the coloring sheet. Sadly, I had to cover the clip art kid's sweet faces with white boxes because one of my directions was to draw how you felt on the first day of kindergarten. Each of my students received a gender specific coloring page. Then, we followed 4 directions.

1. If you are 5, color the shirt blue. If you are six, color the shirt red.
2. If you are a boy, color the pants green. If you are a girl, color the pants yellow.
3. If you are excited, color the shoes orange. If you are nervous, color the shoes blue.
4. Draw a face that shows how you feel about starting kindergarten. (One of my students drew spiral eyes--too perfect!)

I posted the directions in the hallway, along with the finished glyphs.

We were able to spend several days graphing our data. Each kid got a unifix cube which they placed in the correct column to form the two bars for our graphs. I made sure the draw the scale so that one unit was equal in size to one unifix cube. This made it really easy for the kids to see how the scale on a graph tells us what the bars mean. It was such a fun way to start our new school year...not to mention an adorable addition to our hallway!

It's that time of year again, friends. Get excited and keep it class-y, ya'll.