Today we decided to introduce the concept of a graph to the kids. I don't think it's academically important at this age, but it is interesting to them, so that in itself makes it important. We took our list of where we see light, and the kids decided whether they see light in each of the items during the day, the night, or both. Then, we counted how many day lights and how many night lights we had on our list, and graphed them. It was good counting exercise. The graph was a nice visual, and it was good for them to recognize the difference between the two bars: size, height, design (it bothered one kid enough that they didn't match, that he mentioned it much later in the day).
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