Daily Lessons in Graphing Preschool Math Unit

Description

Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics: Graphing Unit includes everything you need to teach graphing concepts in a fun, hands-on way. This unit replaces boring worksheets with engaging, developmentally appropriate lessons that help preschoolers explore data through sorting, counting, and visual representations.

Designed exclusively for preschool learners, this is both a standalone graphing lesson plans unit and part of the complete Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics Curriculum.

What’s Included in the Graphing Unit

This unit provides four weeks (20 days) of structured, open-and-teach lesson plans.

Each lesson includes:

• yearly scope and sequence 
• daily math learning routines focused on sorting and graphing skills
• weekly discovery concept prompts
• targeted, skill-based learning activities
• integrated literacy activities
• printable graphing visuals, centers, and supports
• teaching tips
• bonus activities

Everything is clearly laid out so you always know what to teach and in what order.

Targeted Math Skills Covered

This preschool math unit focuses on making data real and intuitive for preschoolers, including:

• organizing information
• reading data
• comparing data
• transferring data
• producing data sets
• identification of graph parts

Skills are introduced gradually and reinforced through daily routine and play-based activities.

Preschool Graphs Included:

• vertical bar graphs
• horizontal bar graphs
• pictographs
• tally marks

These preschool graphing skills are met with short, hands-on, daily learning routines and teacher-directed activities. They are reinforced with weekly printable math centers, weekly discovery concept activities, and integrated literacy activities.

Hands-On Preschool Math Centers Included

Each week includes printable, reusable math centers that align directly with the daily lessons.

Centers in this unit include:

• 8-1 Race to the Top Games
• 8-2 It’s in the Bag!
• 8-3 Gumball Color Graphing
• 8-4 Reading Pictograph Task Cards
• 8-5 Copy that Data!
• 8-6 Transfer the Data!
• 8-7 Spin & Graph Mats
• 8-8 Pour & Graph Mats

The preschool math curriculum also includes a teacher guide for implementing the curriculum in a spiral and unit based approach.

How This Unit Fits Into the Full Preschool Math Curriculum

This Graphing Unit is one of nine units in the complete Daily Lessons in Preschool Mathematics Curriculum, which includes:

• 40 weeks of math instruction
• A spiral, unit-based scope and sequence
• 72 printable and reusable math centers
• Built-in instructional guidance for teachers

Additional Required Materials

• attribute shapes
• attribute buttons
• counting bears
• snap cubes

Graphing for preschoolers can be easy with these preschool math lesson plans and math unit for graphing. It features several graphs for preschoolers so preschool graphing activities include a range of graph reading. Included are 2o preschool math lessons about graphing.