It has been a busy couple of weeks. On Friday, we had a great time doing some pumpkin math. Students estimated the weight and circumference of their pumpkins, as well as the number of seeds that were in the pumpkin. Once the estimating was complete, students actually got to weigh and measure their pumpkins! Then it was time to get goopy! We had a great time getting our hands right into the pumpkins scooping the seeds out and counting all the seeds. We learned that there really is no correlation between the size of the pumpkin and the number of seeds inside of it. We then entered all our data into the online Seed Counting Project 2009! Including our school, 246 schools participated with a total of 106, 935 seeds counted!!! We will be looking at the data tomorrow! Once the seeds were all cleaned out and counted (and separated into 100’s, 10’s and units), we talked about polygons and the students learned that a polygon is a shape with three or more straight sides. So, in other words, a triangle would be a polygon as would an octagon. Once students understood what a polygon was, their challenge was to carve polygon patterns into their pumpkins. No simple face carving for us, no sireee! Polygon carving all the way!!! Here are a couple of videos showing us hard at work!

Here are the spelling words for this week:

M-6

And the link to this weeks Spelling City:

Our memory verse this week comes from Jeremiah 32:17

Ah, Sovereign Lord. You have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.

Check back tomorrow for the start of something exciting!!!!