So I'm not sure how many of you were told about the crayon factory and the boxes we got but it was a big deal in our classroom!
The story went I went to visit a crayon factory and they gave me 16 boxes of crayons.* The only problem was that their machines weren't working and they thought some of the boxes didn't have the right amount of crayons in them (24). Each child had a big job of counting their crayons, writing the number on their board, and then drawing that number of crayons. During the grand crayon count the factory texted me and said they had made a mistake and really the machine was fine and everyone had 24. I told them anyone who didn't get 24 as their number to go back and recount :).
*No crayon factories were visited during this activity! Only supplies that you guys amazingly provided were used :)
They loved this and it was a great way to help review one to one correspondence, paying attention when counting, as well as writing numbers.
When we were done we worked with dice, counters, and our 10 frames to play some math games :)
