Thanksgiving Graphing

About this resource

How many turkeys? How many pumpkins? Which one has the most? This is a complete kit for graphing in November. Children count a scene of Thanksgiving pictures (turkeys, pumpkins, leaves, corn cobs, pies and acorns), make tally marks, color a bar graph, draw a pictograph and answer how many more, on pages with room to work. Every scene comes in three levels, so one table of children can all graph the same week. It comes with answer keys, a tracker, a class grid and a family page, so nothing has to be written from scratch.

EVERYTHING INSIDE (30 pages)

• 15 student pages in 7 page types, in 3 levels
• 3 picture scenes with 13, 22 and 30 pictures to count (65 in all), every picture drawn for this set
• 61 scored items on 13 pages, every answer worked out from the scene or the table on the page
• 7 graph pages: 3 bar graphs, 2 pictographs, a finished graph to read and a blank class-vote graph
• 12 find-and-tally answers (one for each kind of picture in each scene)
• 10 how-many-more questions across 3 pages, including a "show your work" page with a large work box for each question
• 4 questions on a finished class-vote graph, and 4 sentence frames on a graph
• 2 answer keys
• 1 tracker (page, page type, items right, date) and 1 whole-class progress grid
• 1 team note (a hand-off page between team meetings) and 1 home page
• 1 filled example (an invented student), 1 phrase bank (16 starters), 1 binder cover and 6 divider tabs with a spine label to cut out
• Start Here and a how-to-read-a-page page

The Page Types, Easiest First

1. Find and Tally, 3 pages (1, 2 and 3 dots): a scene of pictures. Count each kind, make tally marks, write the number. Scene A has 3 kinds and 13 pictures, scene B has 4 kinds and 22, scene C has 5 kinds and 30. The five-mark tally is shown on every page.

2. Bar Graph, 3 pages: color one box for each picture, then circle the picture with the most and the picture with the fewest. On the level-three page each box means 2.

3. How Many More? A (1 dot): two rows of pictures lined up side by side. Count both rows and write how many more.

4. Write a Sentence A (1 dot): a finished graph and four sentence frames, three number blanks and one circle (most or fewest).

5. Pictograph, 2 pages (2 and 3 dots): a row for each kind of picture. Draw one picture for each, write how many, then circle the most and the fewest. On the level-three page each picture means 2.

6. How Many More? B (2 dots): read a finished graph and answer 4 questions (more and fewer).

7. Read a Graph (2 dots): a finished graph of a pretend class vote, 4 questions.

8. Make a Graph (2 dots): ask friends which Thanksgiving food they like best, color a box for each, write three sentences. Not scored.

9. How Many More? C (3 dots): 3 questions (more, fewer and in all), each with a large box to show work.

10. Write a Sentence C (3 dots): a graph where each box means 2 and five sentences to finish. Not scored.

How To Use It

Hand over a page. Every student page opens with a name line and one short instruction in kid words, so the child can start. The Start Here page has a chart that says which page for which child. Have crayons ready for the bar graphs. The tracker lists every scored page with its item count.

The Numbers Are Real

The count on every scene page is the number of pictures drawn on it, and the answer keys, the questions and the graphs are all worked out from the same numbers, so a page and its key always agree. The only made-up numbers are the votes on the Read a Graph page, and that page says they are pretend.

No Guessing The Answer

Wherever a child circles one picture (the most, the fewest), the picture tiles are in a different order on each page, so the right tile is not always in the same spot.

Built For The Child Holding The Page

A big "My name" line, one short instruction, large rounded type, big answer boxes, and dots (not words or colors) to show which level a page is. Nothing on a student page is written for an adult. The file prints clean in black and white, and the pictures are line drawings a child can color.

Type In, Or Print

The name line and every answer box are type-in fields in any PDF reader: click one, type, then save. The same goes for the tracker, the class grid, the team note and the home page. This is a fillable PDF; it is not a Google Slides or PowerPoint file.

Who This Is For

Kindergarten to 2nd grade classrooms, self-contained and resource rooms, and any teacher building a Thanksgiving or fall math center, a small group or a morning work folder.

What This Is, And What It Is Not

A Thanksgiving graphing worksheet set with the record-keeping around it. It is not a timed test, a screener, a clinical tool, or a claim about any student's age or rate of progress. There is no IEP goal language or eligibility wording anywhere in the file.

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