Happy Halloween

What a week!  Conferences, Volleyball, Football, Halloween, and we can't forget the wind!!  After reading our TIME for KIDS magazine, we got the idea that we could carve our pumpkin and roast the seeds.  The kids each got a handful of seeds out of the pumpkin, then they were washed, and finally we brainstormed ideas about how to count them.  We quickly learned that counting them one at a time would take forever and we could probably lose track of where we were at.  Then someone suggested to skip count by 2.  Well, once again we found that it would take a long time.  Finally, a student suggested that we skip count by 10.  So, each child took turns counting out 10 seeds and placing them on an index card.  Then those could be placed with 10 in a row, to make 100.   The class was able to quickly count using our plan, and we found that we had 513 seeds to roast.  Then we worked together to decide how to carve our Jack-O-lantern.

First graders costumes for the Halloween Parade!