Count and Graph Fruit

💡 About this activity

🎯 Learning objectives

• Count up to five pictures of the same fruit, pointing to each one.
• Color one square for each picture counted.
• Identify which fruit appears most often.

🧺 What you need

• Printed activity sheet
• Colored pencils or crayons

👣 How to do it

1. Print the sheet and place the coloring materials within the child's reach.
2. Invite the child to name the fruits they see.
3. Show them how to point to each apple and count it only once.
4. Color one square in the apple column for each apple.
5. Invite the child to count the other fruits and color their squares.
6. Look at the graph together and ask which fruit appears most often.

🍎 Teaching suggestions

• Say, “Let's point to one fruit at a time.”
• If the child needs support, cover the other fruits with a sheet of paper while they count one kind.
• Count together again if the number of colored squares does not match the pictures.
• In a group, give each child a sheet and compare discoveries.
• Talk about fruits the child knows from everyday life.

🔀 Variations

💬 Talk about it

• What do you notice about the fruits?
• How did you find out how many strawberries there are?
• Which fruit appears most often? How does the graph show that?
• What do you notice when you compare the columns?

👀 What to look for

• Notice whether the child points to each picture once while counting.
• Check whether they color one square for each picture of each fruit.
• Notice whether they identify strawberries as the fruit that appears most often.