Tasty Tallies
We've been learning all about tally marks in first grade this week! The chant "four standing tall, ones makes the fall" echoes in our room. Our class uses Everyday Math Curriculum, which really emphasizes the use of tally makes, as well as tally charts.
So, in order to make drawing lines on a paper more engaging, we incorporated food, simply because everything is always better with food! For the record, it worked! Every child was excited to visit this center and engaged the entire time. Another benefit of pretzel sticks, is that it's an easy fix when a child forgets to "make a fall." One of the biggest frustrations with tally marks is when a child has to erase quite a bit to correct his or her mistake. So, simply moving a pretzel stick is a huge plus!
To get this worksheet, click below! Have fun practicing tallies with your own firsties. :)
That was a fun way to demo tallies and I'm sure the activity was more engaging for the kids than pencil and paper. I like it! Did you have to let parents know in advance about using food because of allergies? I know some schools have changed food use practices in the last couple of years. Years ago I used the m&m book for teaching grouping and probability- that would be probably be considered very unhealthy now, but it was engaging and effective for getting concepts across.
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