Write the title "My Favorite Juice" at the top of a sheet of poster board with your marker. Draw four lines an equal distance apart under the title to the bottom of the poster board to make 5 equal columns.
Place a straw into each juice box. Glue a juice box at the top of each column. Attach the completed graph to the wall with two-sided tape at a height that the kindergarten students can reach.
Ask the students to sit on the rug in a semicircle. Point to the title on the graph with your pointer and read "My Favorite Juice." Then tell your students that this is a graph to show which of the five juice flavors on the graph is their favorite. Point to each juice box with your pointer and say the name of the juice flavors: apple, orange, strawberry, pineapple and grape.
Tell the students when you point to their favorite juice box with the pointer they should raise their hands. Explain that when they raise their hands you will call them up to place a matching picture of fruit under their favorite juice box on the graph. Point to the first juice box with your pointer and give each student who raises their hand a matching picture of fruit to attach to the graph with two sided tape. Continue pointing to the juice boxes until all the students have made their choices and posted their paper fruit to the graph.
Remind the students that each picture equals one student. Call a student to come up and count the number of fruit pictures in the first column then have them write the amount of pictures that they counted at the bottom of the column with a marker. Continue to call students up to count and write down the number of pictures that are in the columns until all the pictures have been counted.
Download a blank bar graph. Scan the blank bar graph to your computer and open it as a page. Type the words "My Favorite Juice" above the title line of the bar graph page. Start at the beginning of the bottom row of the bar graph and type the scale of numbers 5, 10, 15, 20, 25, 30, 35, and 40 in numerical order in front of each row of the graph. Insert a picture of an apple beneath the first column of the graph, a picture of an orange beneath the second column, a strawberry beneath the third column, a pineapple beneath the fourth column, and a grape beneath the fifth column of the graph. Print a copy for each student and a few extra for other bar graphs.
Place the "My Favorite Juice" picture graph on the classroom wall or board so that all students sitting at their desks will be able to see it. Review the number of students who liked each juice in the picture graph and tell the students that they will be putting this information into a bar graph. Pass out the blank bar graphs. Read the title of the bar graph with the students. Tell the students that the scale to the left of each row of the graph shows the number of students who liked each kind of juice. Explain that the names beneath the columns on the bar graph show the types of juice the students liked.
Tell the students that they will use crayons to color the bars for each column of their bar graph. Explain that they will need a red crayon to color the bar for the apple juice, an orange crayon for the orange juice, a pink crayon for strawberry juice, a yellow crayon for pineapple juice and a purple crayon for grape juice.
Point to the picture graph on the wall and read the number of students who said apple juice was their favorite. Ask the students to look at the scale of their bar graph and point to where that number should be on the scale. Tell them to move their finger to the column for apple juice and use a red crayon to color the bar to show the correct number of students. Continue reading the number of students who liked each type of fruit juice shown on the picture graph, and have the students make the correct bar on the bar graph to show same number of students.