Thanksgiving Week Fun

The two days before our thanksgiving break were full of fun and learning.  We talked about our own family traditions during Thanksgiving and wrote about what we were thankful for.  We also created crock pot pumpkin bread and homemade cinnamon sugar butter.  They had so much fun measuring and cooking.  I am so thankful to have such a fabulous class this year.  Here is the link to the crock pot pumpkin bread if you would like to make it at home! http://wannabite.com/crockpot-pumpkin-bread/

It turned out just perfect! 

Here it is cooking while we are working! 

Everyone got a turn to use the mixer! 

Here we are measuring out the ingredients

Jack-O-Lantern Glyphs

This week we had some fun with making Jack-O-Lanterns.  Our Jack-O-Lanterns were no normal Jack-O-Lanterns. Each Jack-O-Lantern is different, and based on a series of questions.  

This is our Jack-O-Lantern Glyph. Each students pumpkin looks different based upon their answers to different questions. 

Here are our finish Jack-O-Lanterns. Aren't they adorable! 

After we finished making our Jack-O-Lanterns we tallied the results to each question. We also discussed that the word data is just another word for information.

After we tallied our information we decided to use that information to create a few graphs so we could compare information.  We added a key, and discussed why it was important when creating a graph. 

Here are two graphs we made as a class. The first shows how many people live in their house. The second tells how many boys and girls made Jack-o-lanterns.  At first they wanted to change the number because it didn't match the number of people in our classroom. I then reminded them that the graph showed how many people made Jack-o-lanterns, not how many people were in our class.  Overall, this was a fun week in math. There were lots of great conversations about graphing and collecting data.