Pictographs

Yesterday students were put into small groups and given a pictograph to interpret. I had not yet done any teaching on pictographs yet, but thought this would be a great way for students to explore on their own, teach each other and provide me with a good picture of what they already know. And holy smokes was I impressed. All groups were making wonderful interpretations of the data in the graph. In addition, they were paying attention to the key to kelp them read the data accurately! The key is a new concept to Grade Three, so the fact that they were able to problem solve as a small group on how to use it really had me smilin'.
After sharing our findings as a class today I gave the kiddies a little challenge. It was to make a tally chart based on one of the pictographs (so now we were working backwards). Amazingly, all kiddies were able to do this challenge! Way to go chickadees!

Below is an example of one of the pictographs we used for problem solving.