Treasure Boxes

Michelle Garcia & Vanessa Silva

Materials List

For the Class

• Chart paper
• Permanent Markers to label boxes
• 8-16 sturdy empty boxes
• Extra treasures for students who may not have collected their own and to show students as examples (possible treasures to collect: buttons, shells, rocks, old keys, stamps, foreign coins, barrettes, pencil erasers, puzzle pieces, bolts, pasta in a variety of shapes)
• A few treasures items the same size, smaller, and larger than the construction paper square
• A few personal treasures to share with class
• 1 large box for collecting all class treasures
• 16 filled treasure boxes
• 1 shoe from each student
• Several sheets of chart paper for recording attributes
• 21 1 ½ x 1 ½ construction paper squares
• 32 student journals (one per student) or sheets of paper (several per student)
• 32 pencils
• 32 copies of the Sample letter to Families
• 3 pieces of 2”x4” paper to label the Venn diagram
• 16 cups or other containers to hold a subset of treasure
• 16 – 36” lengths of yarn in one color for Venn diagrams
• 16 – 36” lengths of yarn in another color for Venn diagrams *be sure the 2 colors of yarn are very distinct*
• 16 small plastic bags (for yarn loops)
• 30 bread tags or another easily visible treasure
• 25-30 sheets 12x18 construction paper
• A 48”x108” piece of butcher paper for large class graphing grid
• 1 ruler/yardstick
• 34 smaller graphing grids (master on page 91)
• 16 sheets of 8 ½ x 11 colored card stock to make Game Cards (master on page 57)
• 12 - 32 pieces of 11”x17” paper for the Hidden Treasure Map gameboard (master on page 93)
• 16 rubber bands
• 240 markers (lima beans, plastic disks, etc)
• 8-16 clean paper cups, each large enough to hold ¼ cup of cereal
• 1 – 15 oz box of Cherrios or any smaller similar cereal with pieces of uniform shape and size
• A ¼ cup measuring cup
• 32 sandwich size Ziploc plastic bags
•  (optional) a copy of The Doorbell Rang