Witch's Hats

Our latest Art project had a Halloween theme!

We continued with the concept of using a resist when painting that we used with our crazy leaves to create witch's hats.  Instead of crayons, this time we used oil pastels, which work a lot better.  We used the pastels to decorate our hats as well as our backgrounds.  Once we had done that, we then used watercolours to paint.  The pastels resisted the water colour.  The students had a lot of fun and they turned out great!

Here are students working on the different steps.

Here are some of the finished pieces.

How Much, How Many, How Far, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1000?

Over the past several weeks we have been working on developing our number sense by working with numbers up to 1000.  When we first began we read the book "How Much, How Many, How Far, How Heavy, How Long, How Tall is 1000?" as an introduction to the concept of 1000.  Last week we reread the book to refresh our memories before creating a representation of what 1000 actually is.

Here is the book.

 We began by creating groups of ten.  Students received strips of paper to glue 10 toothpicks onto.  Students continued to do this until all of our strips (100) were complete.

Counting to make sure we had made enough.

We then counted by 10s all the way to 1000.  Each student put each "ten" in a line (or group) until we reached 100.  At that point we started a new line/group.  

Students placing their "tens" in groups of 100.

When we were all finished we could see exactly what 1000 looked like.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Today Room 20's day was filled with a variety of Thanksgiving themed activities.  This morning during our Math class, we worked on Thanksgiving Math.  We had three different activities.  One was ordering three-digit numbers, another was working with numbers to create a variety of three-digit numbers, and the third was an activity that had students practicing their addition.

This afternoon was our Thanksgiving Stations.  Six stations were placed around the room for students to work at.  There was a Thanksgiving Dinner station, where student selected items to buy for dinner.  They had a $25 limit and they had to choose items based off the prices.  There was a station for disguising a turkey, a station where students rearranged the letters in the word cornucopia to find new words, a reading corner filled with Thanksgiving books, an activity book station, and a Thanksgiving Math games station.  Everyone had a lot of fun!