Pumpkin Week - Sink or Float?

Today's task was to find out if pumpkins sink or float in water.

First we had to make a hypothesis.

Next we had to collect data by asking our friends if they thought a pumpkin would sink or float.

We used these three pumpkins. Does it matter the size? Color?

In order to do our best work, we had to have some nourishment of pumpkin bread.

Here we go. We had to collect our data.

Once we finished collecting our data, we wanted to represent the data in a table.

Our orange crayons came in handy while working with a table.

Next, we decided to take data on the entire class.

Then we decided to test our hypothesis. The biggest on floated.

The middle sized pumpkin floated.

So did the little one. All three floated, so the size nor color mattered. Why does a pumpkin float? Ask your a student in Mrs. Standlee's class. S/he can tell you.

Pumpkin Week - Odd or Even Seeds?

Today's task was to count a handful of seeds and write the total down on the worksheet.

Then circle whether the total was odd or even.

We used popcorn seeds because Mrs. Standlee could not find enough pumpkin seeds.

We got to try this six different times with six different handfuls of seeds.

Pumpkin Week - Pumpkin Estimation

We needed to figure out how many pumpkins were in the jar.

On our pumpkin matts, we each had 10 of the candy pumpkins to help us with the look of the volume of 10 candy pumpkins.

After seeing what 20, 30, 40, 50 candy pumpkins looks like, we adjusted our estimates.  

After seeing what 100 candy pumpkins looked like, we adjusted our estimate.  

Our third estimate was our final.

Mary's estimate was 240 and there were 239 in the jar. Mary won the whole jar of pumpkin candy!

Pumpkin Week! Pumpkin Measure

For the start of Pumpkin Week we estimated how round we thought a small, medium and large pumpkin would be in centimeters using yarn.

Next, we measured our yarn estimates with a meter stick and recorded our answers in centimeters.

After that, we measured the circumference with a measuring tape and recorded our answers in centimeters.

Finally, we had to make subtraction equations using the estimate and actual numbers to find the difference between our the two numbers. What a great start to Pumpkin Week!

Book Fair

This is Mrs. Kerr. She is the Book Fair Lady. We are so thankful to her.

We love the Book Fair!

So many books, how to decide?

Golden Sneaker Award

Our class won the Golden Sneaker Award for PE from Mr. Lofstrom, the PE Guy, because we had the most PE points for the month of September! Way to go Team Standlee!