Flags around the world are also available in most Clip Art galleries. Students collect data about each other such as favorite color, number of people in your family, eye color, birthdays. A template would be designed on Excel for the Chart Wizard. Use Paint at beginning of year to have kids illustrate shapes, color words. Spelling words that are number words and patterns can be illustrated with clip art and in Paint, too.
Patterns use paint to draw circles, etc.
The class will then have a scavenger hunt to find out about their classmates how many have pets, siblings, etc., and put the data in an Excel Chart Wizard to make a graph. They can also write sentences to describe their illustrations. Each graph will also require two questions that engage other students to interpret graphs. During the first six weeks, objectives dealing with graphs will be taught with Excel, rather than traditional poster board. Students will make questions requiring graph analysis.