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| We honed our estimation skills through our "Pumpkin Investigation Books." How much do you think this pumpkin weighs? How many lines does it have? How tall is it? (14 lbs, 25 lines, and 17 inches from base to top of stem--if my memory serves...). :-) |
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| Graphing M&Ms by color...a yummy way to practice an important math skill! |
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| Measuring using a non-standard measurement tool--candy corns! |
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| Students each cut a piece of yarn they thought would fit the circumference of the pumpkin--they then checked to see how close their estimates were. |
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| K-Nex are great fun, and they require us to think in different ways. |
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| These students didn't even use the picture on the box to make this puzzle. Wow! And their teamwork was amazing! |
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The puppet show teaches important concepts and is always a student favorite. |
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| Students looked at slices of tree trunks using hand lenses. So cool! |
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| Students used their bodies to create the parts of a tree--the roots, heartwood, bark, branches, twigs, and leaves. A great visual! |
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| We walked through the woods behind the school to search and find information about trees. |
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| I was amazed at how LONG many of the patterns were! |
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| This pattern has many parts! |
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| Skeleton color pattern |
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| Many different patterns! |
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| This got knocked askew a bit, but the idea here was to estimate how many pieces of popcorn could fit on the ghost and then put popcorn onto the page to find how how close the estimates were. The best part--eating the popcorn at the end! ;-) |
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| Fun headbands! |
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| The instructions and the final product. :-) |
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| Students from Mrs. Hughes' class joined us to watch a DVD called The Fire Safety Train, which was donated by the Colchester Volunteer Fire Department last year. |
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Students played the card game "Before and After" twice this week. |
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| On Tuesdays, Mrs. McCleary comes in for Guidance lessons. This week, she focused on the important topic of tattling versus telling. To summarize, tattling is usually when someone is trying to get someone else in trouble. Telling/reporting is telling an adult when someone might or did get hurt (physically or emotionally) and there is danger involved. Everyone received a copy of the "Tattle Rules" to bring home. |
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| These gears were open during a free choice time. It was great to see students work together to make them work! Excellent cooperative problem solving! |
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| The Writing Station has been so popular during both literacy station time and free choice times. This is a community of writers! I can't wait to introduce students to their new writing notebooks on Monday! |
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| Our blocks have also been a hot spot! These students told me this is Fort Ticonderoga in New York. :-) |
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Students explored patterns on the 100 grid., including counts by 2s, 5s, and 10s. |
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| We explored odd and even numbers in multiple ways, including an activity called "Grab the Chips". Students took chips and counted them in pairs to see if there was an "odd one out." If the chips could not be counted in pairs, the number is odd. Stay tuned for a video clip of a new song students learned last week about the pig and cow named Even and Odd! :-) |
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| In the exploration station, students could use stamps, pattern blocks, or unifix cubes to create patterns. |
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| The interactive whiteboard helped with creating and extending patterns with shape and color. We also talked about labeling our patterns. |
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| Ask your child what patterns we discovered in our calendar! |
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| Can your child label this pattern with letters? |
