The children had to choose which one they thought would have the most seeds. We created a tally of our guesses. We discussed our tally results using some good "math language" - the most and the least. Most of the students thought the orange one would have the most seeds. Which one do you think will have the most seeds? |
We wondered which of our three class pumpkins would have the most seeds. Then we had the task of cutting open the pumpkins and scooping out the pulp and seeds. After we washed, cleaned, and dried the seeds, the children got to work counting. We used our "100s counting sheet" to make the task a little easier. It took us a few days to complete our counting! It was tedious work placing each seed on each little square but the students demonstrated the virtue of perseverance! Our results: Did you guess right? Our interest in seeds took us to look at our class collection of gourds. We were curious about what was inside some of our different gourds so...we cut into some of them. Very interesting! Their skin was much harder to cut through than the skin of a pumpkin. We found pulp and seeds - just like our pumpkins. We noticed that the seeds were similar in shape to those we found in our pumpkins except that they were smaller in size.
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Ms. Bennett, our Aboriginal Education Worker, came and taught us about the salmon life cycle. Then the children made their own magic swimming salmon using a magnet, a paper clip, and a pie plate. It was lots of fun making the salmon swim! Our finished products:
We played a new partner math game this week. The children took turns rolling the dice and then colouring the corresponding pumpkin until their pumpkin patch was all coloured in. It was so much fun that many of the students chose to play again during Activity Time!
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