This morning we revisited the 'carnival Math' from yesterday, but focused on subtraction stories. I am so impressed with this groups grasp of this concept. Please continue telling and solving number stories at home. When we arrived at school today, we had to sign in by placing our photo the the graph below, predicting whether or not we thought our pumpkin would float. As you can see, most of the students predicted it would sink, so we were very surprised when the pumpkin floated to the surface. In small groups, we continued our pumpkin exploration today, with a math focus. Students weighed and measured their pumpkins in a variety of ways. We started, however, by looking, and feeling the pumpkin and writing down noticeable attributes. After weighing and measuring our pumpkins, we opened them up and separated the seeds from the pulp. Students predicted how many seeds they thought there would be in their pumpkins. After this, they counted their seeds out in groups of 10 to make them easier to count. Two pumpkins had around 250 seeds, but one pumpkin had 700! We were surprised to find out that we could count that high by 10s. Tomorrow we will be roasting and tasting our seeds, learning the names of the parts of the inside of the pumpkin, and finding out the fastest way for a pumpkin to decompose. Miss Soa and I are looking forward to seeing our little learners in their costumes tomorrow.
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