Graphing helps children learn math principles. This week, the children will graph their ideas about red watermelons, green honeydew melons, and orange cantaloupe. If you prefer, you can add in other brightly colored fruit such as blueberries, purple plums, and yellow bananas. Create a chart with a picture of each fruit at the bottom of a column. Write the name of the fruit. Ask the children to repeat aloud the name of each naming the color fruit. For example: A red watermelon. Give each child a sticky note with their name on it. The children take turns placing their names in one of three columns. How many names are in each column? Which one is the favorite? Count the fruit with the most boy names. Count the fruit with the most girl names. Use the chart to help the children figure out other math problems. Check out this week’s free lesson plan for other ways to use the fruit chart in your classroom.