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In Full Bloom: Counting Petals

Preschool Math

In Full Bloom is an exciting math activity that will get your students out of the classroom and into nature. They
will be practicing their math skills while enjoying the great outdoors!

Learning Objectives

Students will be able to develop awareness of numerals by counting the petals on a flower.

Materials and preparation Key terms

Grocery bags (1 per student) petals


Green paint
Paintbrushes (1 per table)
White paper
Glue
Flower Addition worksheet
Spring Flowers worksheet

Attachments

Flower Addition (PDF)


In Full Bloom Sample Project (JPG)
Spring Flowers (PDF)

Introduction (5 minutes)

Explain to your class that they will be going on an outdoor scavenger hunt for flowers. Instruct them to
collect their own flowers to create beautiful art and count petals.
Ask for a volunteer to explain what a flower is. Explain that a petal is like a colored leaf on a flower.
Pass out grocery bags to each student, and head outside.

Explicit Instruction/Teacher modeling (20 minutes)

Instruct your students to collect at least two flowers.


Once each student has collected flowers, go back inside the classroom, and direct your students to count
the petals on the flowers they have.
Demonstrate what the art project will look like. You may want to do one yourself so that you can show
them what you want it to look like.

Guided Practice (5 minutes)

Practice gluing the flower petals onto a piece of paper to show your students so that they understand the
process.
Count the number of petals aloud.

Independent working time (25 minutes)

Ask your students to pluck the petals off of the flowers and glue the petals to the white paper, creating
their own new flowers. Once the petals have been glued on, instruct them to add a center, a stem, and
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other outdoor features with the paint.
Have them count and either write or paint the number of petals above each of their flowers.

Related books and/or media

VIDEO: Counting Petals

Differentiation

Enrichment: Give your students the Flower Addition worksheet to count additional flowers. Alternatively,
have your students add up the total number of petals from their collected flowers, and direct them to
write the total number on their papers.
Support: Work with students independently with flashcards. Give your students the Spring Flower
worksheet to practice identifying order and numbers.

Assessment (5 minutes)

Walk around and make sure that the number of petals corresponds to the written number.

Review and closing (5 minutes)

Have the students show their illustrations to the rest of the class.
Ask your students to say how many petals they had. Go around the classroom.

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Flower Addition
How many of each flower do you see?
Add them up and write the number in the box!

4 10
+ =

7 5
+ =

3 8
+ =

6 5
+ =

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Spring Flowers
Spring brings many colorful flowers. Read the directions and
color the flowers the correct colors.

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Color the second flower blue. Color the fifth flower yellow.
Color the third flower purple. Color the first flower red.
Color the fourth flower orange. Color the sixth flower pink.

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