London was visited by the the Great Pumpkin for the best citizenship in the room on Tuesday.
Today was entitled " The Great Pumpkin Investigation."
Students used various techniques to calculate the total number of lines on their individual pumpkins.
The greatest number of lines was 32. The pumpkin with the least amount of lines had 18 lines.
We learned about circumference today. Since we all do not have a flexible tape measures, we generated a list of ideas for how we could measure the circumference.
We decided that yarn would be the most flexible way to find out the length around the middle of each pumpkin. Students worked as partners to complete these activities.
Then the laid their yarn on the tape measure. We learned about the importance of starting at the 0 inch mark.
We also used the standard unit of pounds to weigh each pumpkin.
Ask you child about the sink and float investigation station.
We used the nonstandard unit of unifix cubes to measure the height of each pumpkin.
Here are the 1lb pumpkins.
2 lb pumpkin club
3 lb pumkin club
4 lb pumpkin club
5 lb pumpkin club
We cut open a class pumpkin to talk about the parts of the pumpkin. Tomorrow we will use tally marks to discover the total number of seed in the pumpkin.
Students separated the seeds from the pulp.
Ask your child to explain the following words of the day: estimation, circumference and hypothesis
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