Owl Pellets

Last Tuesday, we dissected Owl Pellets. The kids were very excited to open them up and see what was inside!!

Pumpkin Book Reports

On Halloween, the kids dressed up as their favorite book characters and presented their book reports. I was so proud of them!! They worked very hard on them. I made a slideshow of their costumes for you to enjoy!!

Pumpkin Seed Project

Friday in class we did a pumpkin seed project! We took this pumpkin and estimated how many seed were inside this pumpkin!!

Before we got started we made a class estimate of how many seeds we thought was in the pumpkin. Here is what the boys and girls guessed:

Next, I cut the top of the pumpkin and scooped out all the seeds.

I scooped out the seeds on our tables for the boys and girls to dig out and count.

The boys and girls worked hard counting and sorting out the seeds!!

We recorded our data on the board:

We had 589 seeds in our pumpkin!! I still can't believe there were that many in that pumpkin!! I bagged them up and am going roasted them for the kids to enjoy on Monday!

The kids had a great time doing this fun project!!

Math Fun

So, I have been a horrible blogger, but I have been taking pictures, just not uploading them! :) Here are a few of what we have been doing in math.

                              We learned TouchPoints to help us with memorizing our addition facts!

Our new math textbooks came with fun math centers. They are games based on the skills we are learning and the kids get to play them when they finish their math assignments. They LOVE them!!!

Math is one of our favorite times of the day!!





OREO Project

We have been busy working on a special project. The project is called the O.R.E.O. Project – which stands for Our Really Exciting Online Project –and is hosted by a teacher in Southern California. This will be her 13th year of hosting this project. Since 1999, students from every state in the US, almost every Canadian province, and several other countries have participated in this project and submitted their results online to share with each other. Each student will have 2 chances to stack as many oreos as they can. (There are certain rules involved that were explained when we hosted the project in our classroom.) After every participant has recorded their stack counts, we will take everyone’s highest count and average them together for ONE CLASS AVERAGE. Then submit them to the Projects by Jen webpage and compare our results.

Here are the pics from our attempts!!

We had lots of fun!! The highest stack was 22 and the lowest was 13. We still have to complete one more attempt and then we will get our average and submit it to Projects by Jen!