Thanksgiving Bracelet

On our last day before break we sat in a campfire circle. I had a poem about Thanksgiving which I passed around. We created a bracelet using pony beads and a pipe cleaner. The different colors represented something special to Thanksgiving. White stands for the sails of the Mayflower. Blue is for the ocean. Green is for the land and the black is for the soil for planting. Red is for the cranberries, orange is for pumpkins. Yellow is for the corn, the class thought the yellow looked just like a piece of corn. The last on is brown for the turkey. Everyone enjoyed the bracelets!

Estimation

The first thing we did was to take a piece of paper and estimate how many cranberries were in the bag. We then took the bag of cranberries and split them between our 5 tables. Students had to work together to count sets of ten cranberries which we then traded for a 10 stick. As we proceeded we had 7 loose ones. After we had our 10 sticks and 7 loose ones, we then traded 10 ten sticks for a hundred's block. We then modeled our number of 177 cranberries in the bag. Morgan had to closest guess with 151 cranberries.

After this activity we then discussed cranberries and how they are harvested. Then we created a graph if our cranberries would sink or float. We had lots of fun exploring with cranberries!!

Mystery Bag

We had our first mystery bag. The class plays 20 questions and asks specific questions about what is inside of our bag. Here were some of the questions that the class asked. The answer in the bag was cranberries! After we figured out what was in the bag, we then estimated how many cranberries were in the bag.

Indian Corn

One of our activities was to see what would happen to our Indian corn. We discussed that corn is a seed. It took 10 days for us to see the roots and the green stems growing. The class was excited seeing the corn grow.

Welcome!

I would love to share what we are working on in my classroom. This week we will be reading and singing songs about Thanksgiving. I also plan on having a mystery bag with cranberries. We will estimate how many cranberries will be in our bag. This is to review place value. We will also graph if the cranberries will sink or float. I will post pictures as we complete our work!