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| Our Class Representatives did a great job reporting information from their FIRST Student Council Meeting to the class. |
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| We have spent several days observing and determining the properties of SOLIDS. |
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| Some properties we have discovered are opaque, transparent, rigid, pointy, flexible, etc. |
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| The students worked in pairs to sort a cup of solids into groups according to their properties. |
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| We even went on a SOLID hunt in the classroom. |
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| We read Pumpkin Circle. |
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| After reading the book, the boys and girls had to put the events of a pumpkin's life cycle in the correct order. |
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| They thought it was neat that the cycle begins with a seed and ends with a seed. |
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| Next, we read How Many Seeds in a Pumpkin? |
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| We observed our pumpkin before cutting it open. We made a list of adjectives that described it, measured it, weighed it, and predicted how many seeds we thought were in it. |
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| I wish you could have heard the squeals while cleaning out our pumpkin. |
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| They worked so hard to get every single seed. |
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| They could not believe how cold the pulp was. |
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| This is just some of the seeds. There were lots more to get out! |
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| Grayson's face is PRICELESS! |
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| Cameron is not sure he likes it?? |
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| We left them out overnight to dry, so we could count them on Tuesday. |
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| We discussed all the ways we could group our seeds to count them : ones, fives, tens, hundreds..... We agreed to put them in groups of ten. After the students could not agree on a total, we decided to group them by hundreds. This made it a lot easier to get an answer! We finally all agreed! |
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| Our pumpkin had 581 seeds! |
