Growing With Glyphs!

I LOVE glyphs and so do my students.  Here’s one celebrating those May flowers that the April showers supposedly brought in.

They are a wonderful way to whole group assess listening and following directions and because I have a “hard copy” of that, I can actually show something to parents to “prove” their child IS or ISN’T meeting that standard.

When done, the glyphs are adorable and provide a wonderful bulletin board or hallway decoration.

You can have students share them with their classmates so everyone gets to know a bit more about each other, or have them try to figure out who did which glyph through the process of elimination and give a prize to the student who has the most correct.

Click on the link for the flower glyph.

If you’d like to do another spring glyph, I also made a butterfly glyph.

Click on the link for the butterfly glyph.

Hope you can meander on over tomorrow for more creative "stuff".

I'm never sure what I'll be whipping together as I have so much fun designing new things every day. 

If there's something you're in need of and tired of searching the web for, just shoot me an e-mail and I'll see what I can do. diane@teachwithme.com I so enjoy hearing from my readers, or feel free to leave a commet here.

You can PIN anything you think parents or teachers might enjoy as well. 

Happy "Glyphing".

Making a Snowman Glyph is “snow” much fun!

I enjoy making a glyph for my students each month. Glyphs are a pictorial form of data, also known as a pictograph. Since the September Cookie & Bio glyphs were such a huge hit, I thought I'd post a winter glyph.

• They are a really fun way to help reinforce listening and following directions, gather data in a unique way and make a great display for a hallway, as students passing by like guessing who made them.
• The Y5’s enjoy making them + they provide an opportunity to learn more about classmates.

You can also take the snowman glyph pictured on the left, a step farther, and graph various results.

Click on the link to view/print the 4 graphing extensions for the snowman glyph.

Make a game out of the snowman glyphs and give students some time to see how many they can figure out.

• Number the snowman glyphs as you display them in the hallway.
• Have students number their papers.
• Write a list of student names on the board or at the top of a pre-numbered sheet of paper.

•  Give students 5-10 minutes in the hallway to try and figure out the snowman glyph mysteries.
• Then have them sit across from the glyphs and flip the papers up to reveal student names.
• Students self check and add the total they got correct.  How many did you get right?

The pink snowman glyph pictured is my personal sample.  The blue snowman glyph is one I made for my husband.

Click on the link to view/print my snowman glyph.

Be sure and pop back Saturday and see a cute idea for a quick and easy "guess-timation" station poster!