A wonderful day! Oh how I love these kindergartners! They are so competent and are moving through the day following routines, and taking care of all the things they need to do to have a successful day. I really am amazed!!!
We learned how to do Popsicle stick tallying today. Those smart kindergartners were adding 1's, subtracting 1's, counting forwards and backwards by 1's, learning instant recognition of quantities to 5 and counting on from 5. I found out if I present any activity and say we want to "beat the clock" I get REALLY good buy-in and we have many chances to do the activity again and again as the kindergartners gain skills. They want to do it in under a minute!!!!
We are reading great Halloween books and books about growing pumpkins. We are taking part in a nation-wide project estimating how many seeds are in our pumpkin. The pumpkin will get cut open and we will count and see how close we came! 100 got the most votes so we are going with that number (verses 6 or 3000). We will post our results and see what other classrooms came up with.
I was hoping to get better photos from anyone who came on the Pumpkin Patch field trip to add to my slide show.....I am thinking you have better ones than mine but I will send it out anyway.....it's just fun looking at them! Here is the link...
http://animoto.com/play/RLOH6jPIiz8Oc0uXib5Ofg
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