Sunflowers

After we did the name Venn Diagrams we had a little fun with sunflowers. We compared two different sunflowers and wrote down the results. I gave each student a petal from the smaller sunflower, saying, "He loves me. He loves me not" so they could see how to make a petal. They made their own petals and I had them sort them in 2 baskets. One with large petals and ones that were 'mutant', I mean small. I had to calm my OCD about what some of them looked like. But when I glued them around the large Venn Diagram Sunflowers, they looked so real. I used chalk to write with and then sprayed over it with hairspray so it wouldn't smudge. Love sunflowers!

Venn Diagrams

Here is an activity we did with Venn Diagrams and getting to know each other in the class. I randomly selected students to be partners with each other. I gave them their name on red paper and also their name cut into squares. The students had to compare the letters in their names. If they had a match, they glued them on top of each other in the center. If they did not match, they glued them on their own side. They still talk about the similarities in their names with their partner. We have gotten some new kids in class, so we will do this again using our last names.