The Cold Weather has Arrived!

The snow is here! I am asking students to keep an extra pair of socks and mittens in their bags as both these items tend to get very wet by the end of the day. Thank you for your continued support! Please use the agenda if there are any questions. Thanks

Portfolios

Student portfolios went home today. Please take some time to go through the portfolio with your child. Ask lots of questions and enjoy the discussion! All of the work in the binder stays in the binder for the year so it can be tracked and referred to at any time in the classroom. Please sign and return the portfolios by Thursday so they can be used during interviews. As usual, if there are any questions please let me know. Thank you for your continued support. 

The Great Pumpkin Inquiry

On Thursday we created a "How to Carve a Pumpkin" piece of procedural writing. We then followed our directions to create 4 excellent Jack O' Lanterns! The students predicted which pumpkin they believed would have the most seeds and estimated how many seeds were in their group's pumpkin. A few students were pretty close with their guesses! Each group created a strategy to count their seeds, some counted by groups of 5's, while others counted by 10's and 20's.  Their last task was to solve how many seeds our class had all together. They followed their problem solving criteria and discovered that we had 1700 seeds all together! It was an awesome day!