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Tuesday, October 12, 2010

M&M sorting


I was trying to think of a fun way to do some sorting exercises with the girls.  Seeing as we are on the letter Mm I figured M&Ms would be fun to sort.  The other night I came up with the idea for the following sorting tray and spent some time making one each for the girls (instead of sleeping). 

I gathered together:
a cereal box for each girl
construction paper in the colors of M&Ms
scissors
hot glue gun
glue stick
a can to trace to make circles
M&Ms

I cut the back off the cereal box

I then traced and cut out the circles

and glued them in the box with the glue stick

I outlined the circles with the hot glue gun to give them  each a ridge.

Today the girls got to sort 1/4 cup (a serving) of M&Ms.  I measured them out and placed them in half of the top of an egg carton. (Did you know those egg cartons are very versatile?)

It was really interesting watching the girls sort.  Amelia took one randomly and found where it needed to go.  Tabitha would start a color, find all the M&Ms of that color before moving on to the next color.


Then I made some graphs so we could see which color had the most M&Ms. I just drew some lines to make 6 colomns and traced circles up the columns.  The girls just had to place the candy on the circles.  Tabitha caught on really quickly.  Amelia needed some extra help, but that was expected. 




Update:
I am also linking up to

play academy
Carnival of Math Play

8 comments:

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  2. That looks like a fun and delicious way to sort. Oh yeah. I think I'd be up for that sort of sorting...

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  4. oo great job with the math tool! I like what you get to do at the end :-)

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  5. What a great idea to make a ridge around each circle.

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  6. I love all the prep work you did for your kids so they can enjoy and learn!

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  7. like the graphing and Love the hot glue ridge idea. I'm in a big hot glue phase right now and that was a perfect idea to keep the candy from rolling all over!

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  8. This is such an amazing idea!! I will have to borrow it sooon! :o)

    ♥Jazmin

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