Category: Math

Our Jack-o-Lantern

We are scientists and we have been studying about pumpkins. We read stories, had discussions, made observations, and last week, we touched and smelled the inside of our class pumpkin! The children watched me carve our pumpkin into a jack-o-lantern.

We created a web of  words that we thought described the inside of the pumpkin.

We measured, drew pictures, and counted pumpkin seeds. Our small pumpkin had many seeds, much more seeds than a bigger pumpkin! We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin, and most importantly, we had a fun week!

Ask your child to tell you what they know about pumpkins.

Valentine’s Day Estimation Jar

Estimation can be a difficult concept for young kids to understand. Most of them seemed to care only about getting “the right answer.” For one of our Valentine’s Day activities, students had to guess how many fruit snacks are in this jar! We discussed how estimation can be a valuable skill to have in real life and guessing numbers that are close to the actual amount means it is a “good guess”. After looking at the size of one fruit snack and comparing this to other items we have estimated, all students agreed that it could not be 1000… or 100.  They also agreed that it could not be 0, 1 or 5, or even 10.

Here are our guesses:

After counting them, we found out there were 22 fruit snack packs in the jar! Nice work, everyone!

Apples Taste Delicious!

We have been learning about apples this term. Here are some photos from our apple tasting experiment in October. Students sampled three varieties of apples – red (Royal Gala), yellow (Golden Delicious) and green (Granny Smith). Students chose which color apple they liked best. We created this graph below. For some fun photos of your child eating the apples, please log into your child’s Blogfolio.

Hatching Chicks!

We have been learning about chicks and oviparous animals (e.g. animals that lay eggs) this term. With Ms. Gourlay’s class, we hatched some eggs!  We had three eggs in an incubator and we looked through a special scope that allows us to see inside the egg.  Students completed a Science journal, where they made predictions and recorded their observations.

eggs in the incubator
making a prediction
after the eggs hatched

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Photos of individual students will be uploaded to their blogfolios for Term 3.