Picture Graph with Hospital Things — Kindergarten

On this kindergarten sheet the beds, bandages and a stethoscope are jumbled together, and the child brings order to them. They sort the hospital things by kind into the graph's columns, filling one square per picture, and count each column as it grows. Keeping the groups small means every total can be checked by counting the squares, and the finished graph is a true record of what the child sorted and counted.

Sorting comes before counting, and counting comes before any graph. A child who can gather the hospital things into groups and say how many are in each is doing the heart of the work; the columns just hold those counts side by side so they can be compared by height. That ordering — classify, count, represent — is exactly what kindergarten asks for.

Children who like hospital things take to this one quickly, and it makes a strong shared lesson: build one column together on the board, then let children finish their own. When this feels easy, sort and count a different set in picture graph with insects and bugs, or try picture graph with pets. You can also browse every picture graph worksheet or the whole hospital things collection for kindergarten — each graph prints on a single page or fills in on screen as children tap.