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I just love the beautiful bright colors of M&Ms and today, we explored M&Ms through several different types of activities. We started off all our activities by reading (or exploring) the book, “The M&M’s Brand Chocolate Candies Counting Book
Which is available here…
We didn’t read the entire book since the math concepts start to get a little over our level of readiness, but just the first several pages of the book made our little M&M counting process super fun…
Each of the children were given M&M’s for counting as we read along with the counting book…
Each page of the book invited the children to select a specific color and number of M&Ms to count out and arrange on their board. We are using our mini-home made DIY flannel boards for this process…
The book also has the children make a few different designs on their boards like going from corner to corner…
Some of the designs were a bit too complicated for the children so we didn’t continue with the book. But the book proved to be a terrific way to kick off color sorting and counting and designing with the M&M’s…
After we set aside the book, the children continued to create their own designs…
And just you wait and see what we did next! It was amazing, fun, super cool – I can’t wait to share it with you!!! Stay tuned while I go now to write up my next amazing M&M post!
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This looks awesome! I’m glad the kids had so much fun counting and sorting M&Ms. Did you have any problems with them trying to eat their M&Ms?
This class is so used to using a wide variety of materials like this, that they rarely try to eat them:) I did let the children eat a few after we finished up our math! It was only the decent thing to do!LOL!
Yum! I had this book when I was teaching and loved it!
I think M&Ms are my favorite item to use for sorting, counting, and doing any sort of math activity (like graphing).
One time I had my 2nd graders create a survey and then survey every class in the entire school to figure out the favorite M&M of the whole school. It was so cute how excited they were to announce the winner types/colors over the PA system.
It’s great that your kids rarely try to eat these type of materials. But yes, letting them have a few M&Ms after definitely was the only decent thing to do. Too funny! I plan to use this idea in my classroom. Thanks!
And when done with the math and somebody asks: Where are the M and M’s?, you can answer: We 8 them up!
Haha!! Yes, we can:)
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