One Fish, Two Fish

Here's a project I did with first grade last year to integrate art and math. To celebrate Dr. Seuss' birthday, students read One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish.  Then we drew undersea environments for their fish. We looked at pictures of plant life and coral . Make sure students do not draw any fish yet! I made sure not to tell students that they would be printing the fish on later because they would all rush to finish their backgrounds in the hopes of painting!

As students finished their undersea environment, I gave them the option to print 3 fish on their paper. The only problem was I only had two fish a red and blue! I asked individual students what we could do to make three. Students came up with many different combinations of red and blue two make 3. When all pictures were complete we counted how many different ways we could make 3 out of 2. What a cool way to incorporate math into their art!