Great Glyphs!

 Glyphs are a fun activity that you can do as part of your Data Management strand.  A glyph is a set of directions that a student follows which is based on their own answers (or data).  At the end of the questions there is a product (a coloured in picture, a piece of artwork) that represents the answers (or data).  Below is a Glyph that was done at our recent Kindergarten PLC.  (For templates or links to the Glyphs visit the wiki).  We created our glyphs using only paper and pencil crayons, but they look MUCH better when you see them done in construction paper.

Our gylph asked us questions which made a pizza.

We displayed our finished work around the glyph.

After the gylphs are completed you can hang them proudly in front of your classroom (along with the instructions on how to make the Glyph) and then pose questions to your school community.  These questions could be:  How many boys are there in our class?  Most of the students in our class are what age?  What is the favourite pizza place in our school?  You can post chart paper up under the questions for people to answer, and also leave a spot for them to pose questions of their own.  A very fun activity to both do and include your school community into.  You can also google "Glyphs for Math" to help you get a lot of other good ideas for making Glyphs.