Halloween Dance
Thank you to all for your support in our first Halloween Dance-a-thon. The students had such a great time working up a sweat!
Math
In math we have been learning how to add using the context of measurement. We have moved from counting and adding on a concrete number line to adding on an open number line. Students are learning to look at numbers in more flexible ways such as keeping a number whole and splitting the addend (the other number) so the whole number can become a landmark number.
In keeping with the Halloween spirit, students had the opportunity to scoop out pumpkin seeds from pumpkins and counted all the seeds. They worked on using various strategies to add up all the seeds. It was exciting to see students using efficient strategies they learned earlier this year. We then added the seeds from all four pumpkins to find out how many seeds we had altogether. Look at the mathematicians develop their mental math skills!
