Friday, October 7, 2016

Place Value Palaces!




Today, we read The True Story of the 3 Little Pigs! It was a very funny book told for the point-of-view, or perspective, of the wolf. The wolf used key words like I, my, and me to show first person. 
For math, we built our own structures using ones, tens, and hundreds. It was a fun way to practice place value!



Photo by Mrs. Yollis








On the left side of the index card is each part of the house and the number of units used. (Example: 20 units were used on the roof, one hundred on the front.) On the right side of the card are three sentences. The first sentence describes the house. The second sentence tells how many hundreds, tens, and ones were used. The third sentence tells whether the total number of units was odd or even. 



Which dwelling do you like the most and why? 

What is the value? Is it odd or even?
Check out some of our mansions, ordinary houses, and modern three dimensional homes and calculations below
Charlotte's new home for the Third Little Pig (1,300 units)
All photos by Ms. Tulbure


 Ben's Double Roof House (257 units)




 Ineesha's cottage (230 units)




 Mikayla's normal home (152 units)




 Grant's one story house (340 units)





 Keira's guest house (164 units)




 Taylor's Playhouse (336 units)




 Ashlynne's one story house (1,280 units)





 Elior's two-window house (142 units)



 Justin's house for the second little pig (120 units)





 Leslie's ordinary house (148 units)




 Lenore's mansion (335 units)




What was the value of your house? Was it odd oreven?

Whose dwellings did you like? 
What were the values? Were they odd or even

27 comments:

  1. Greetings class, Grant here
    with some house building tips!
    First you can ad some plants if you are a plant lover.
    You can make the plants with ones.
    Next tip ad windows just to make the house a better place.
    3rd tip you can make a porch out of hundreds. Thanks for your time I really like building. Do you like building?

    Kindly,Grant

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    1. Hi Grant,
      This is Sam. It really is fun building houses. I wish we could take a field trip to Home Depot and build those wood houses with hammers and wood glue that would be much more fun. May be we can be blogging partners some time. Oh and yes I do like building and engineering. I want to be an inventor. What do you want to be? Kindly Sam

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  2. It was very cool to build out of ones, tens, and hundreds. In
    second grade the teacher will give us 2 minutes to play with the block. The class would build houses and at the end the class would break the house with a tens blocks. BAM!The house is in blocks. I had so much fun after that. I love it that people are using the tens as supports and than the hundreds as there foundation to building there mansion or house. Is one
    of yours two story or one story, over?

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    1. Hi skler it was so much fun building I remember when we were in second grade crashing down towers with tens and they would fall over that was super cool. I remember mine would keep falling down because I would make it like strate up like a tower. What did you do in second grade?

      your best friend Sam

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  3. Hi class,
    I like building. It is super fun I go to HOME DEPOT once a mouth to build a toy.

    Do you like building?

    Kindly,GRANT

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  4. Elior's number of units for his house is even.
    Charlotte's number of units for her house is also even.
    Charlotte and I like Grant's dwelling.
    Does anyone like Grant's dwelling?

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    1. Hi Charlotte and Elior,
      I really like your houses too.
      I like how you made the house so cool Elior.
      Charlotte I like how your house has windows.

      Kindly,Grant

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    2. Hello Elior and Charlotte my number of cubes is even too. My house was not really a house it was more like a porch with beams at the top kind of like a no roof house. Grant really does have good building skills. are you a good builder?

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    3. Hi Sam I love building but I wouldn't call myself a great builder. I help my dad build lots of things.
      I like your house too. Do you think you are a great helper. I know you are.

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  5. HI this is Alberto

    This is how I build my house. I first find a structured base. Then I put the walls up. Last but not least you need a roof and there you have it. Now you have your house.

    I hope you like building houses.

    Sincerely,
    Alberto

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  6. Hi class,

    I like Grant's dwelling because it looks like a real house .
    Grant's number of units for his house is even.
    Does anyone else like Grant's dwelling?

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  7. Hi class,
    I like building it is so so fun.
    I like Taylor's play-house.
    Does anyone like Taylor's play-house?

    I like how Taylor's Play-house because Taylor made a big opening.


    Kindly,GRANT

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  8. Hello I think our houses were great! We worked so hard and they were better than I imagined they would be! Now I will tell you about my weekend. Well my weekend was great. So, on Saturday I went to my dads friends sons birthday party and it was at this fancy restaurant. On Sunday I went to another restaurant but it was not for a birthday. We ate and we had so much fun . My friend was also there. Since she was there she wanted me to come over to her house so I did. her name is Leenoy. shes really nice. And her name is almost like mine Lenore. then, when I went home my mom got me ice cream it was chocolate and vanilla mix it was great and I had the best weekend ever!



    Sincerely
    Lenore &heart;

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    1. Hi Lenore,
      I love your house.
      All it needs is a roof!
      But I still like it.
      You can go to Home-Depot and build!
      I have 25 wood stuff I made at Home-Depot!
      I like chocolate ice-cream also.
      I like horse back riding.Do you like the LA DODGERS?


      Your FRIEND,GRANT

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    2. Hi�� Lenore I love building houses but I love engenering even more but I also like building to. That was awesome my number of blocks were even I can't remember how many there were though. It was nice talking with you.Was your number even or odd?

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    3. Hi Grant I think my house needs a roof too! I just did not have time to make one. and I actually don't really watch sports. I just like watching cartoons, youtube videos when they open toy surprises its really interesting for me. and I like chocolate and vanilla ice cream there my favorite. I should go to home depot cause I love building! Whats your favorite ice cream?



      Your Friend,
      Lenore

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  9. Dear Class, I think that our year so far was great! And we are pretty close to taking our acers home YAY! isn't that exiting! its so awesome that getting into so much cool stuff this year! I love it. Hopefully we get into more and more fun stuff this year! Did you have fun this year?


    Sincerely
    Lenore &heart;

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  10. Hi class,
    I like to build with my friends like Sam.
    I go to HOME-DEPOT.
    I like to help build.
    I like to build and don't forget WE BUILD!

    Kindly,Grant

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  11. Hi. this is Viviana.
    This year for Halloween I am going trick-or-treating with my best friend. Her name is Quinn. I miss her now that I moved to a different school.Now We are far apart. But we are still best friends. My favorite holiday is Christmas but I like Halloween.For Halloween i want to be a cat. I want to be a cute cat. Probably all black but my ears are a little pink. I have cute accessories to go with my costume. I got a cute little bow tie,ears,tail, and a little black skirt. I can’t wait till Halloween!
    I can’t wait.
    This Thursday for the first time I will get to take tennis classes! I have never played before and I can’t wait. What are you going to be for Halloween? What's your favorite Holiday?

    Sincerely,
    Viviana

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  12. Hi class this is Samantha today I am going to talk about myself.My favorite food are pork chops. My favorite animal are puppies and my favorite subjuct are P.E. and Libray. What are you going to be on Halloween? See you later.

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    1. Hi Samantha! I am going to be a shopkin for Halloween. If you don't know those are my favorite toys! I play with them all the time! I wish had more even if I have 156. What are you going to be for Halloween?

      Kindly,
      Lenore

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  13. The best thing about October is that you get pumpkin pie and candy.
    We think that Halloween is the best holiday to get candy.
    Have you ever carved a pumpkin before?

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  14. Pumpkins are many sizes big,small,tiny,large.
    Pumpkins look and are very fun too carve.
    At Gelsons they have pumpkins that have warts.
    Have you ever brought a pumpkin home before?

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  15. Hi this is Lenore and Ben. Here I Lenore here telling you about my weekend.On Saturday I went to the Pumpkin Festival. I had so much fun it was amazing! I played in the play ground and did so many cool things. on Sunday I well stayed home all day it was that boring actually. But my weekend was awesome!


    Here is Ben telling you about his weekend. Hi i'm Ben and on Saturday I was sick so I stayed home all day. On Sunday I played tennis vs my dad and then I went swimming in my back yard and I played a little bit of Xbox with my sisters and that's what we both did on the weekend.
    What did you do on the weekend?


    Sincerely,
    Lenore & Ben

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  16. Dear Ms.Tulbure's Class,

    I loved looking at all those amazing houses. I saw some 3 dimensional houses, some 1 story houses, some cottages, and some playhouses. It was so cool. I can't wait for next years! What was your favorite part of building these amazing houses?

    Sincerely,
    Maya

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  17. Hi Ben - this is dad. I always enjoy playing tennis with you. You're getting very good. It's a fun game and the more you play, the better you'll become. Also, it's a game that you can play your whole life.

    I also enjoy seeing the worlds you create in minecraft. I known you said you want to be an architectect when you grow up. I think that's neat. Maybe minecraft is good practice?

    That's all for now....

    Dad

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  18. Greetings Everybody,


    I know that grant told us how to build well I’m gonna do it my way. First you need a foundation which means you have to have big metal beams. Those keep everything in place. The you can put walls. Next you can put the insolation. Which keeps the house nice and warm. Now you need a roof so to do that you put wooden beams on top of your house Then you put wood slats down and get shingles.there you have a house.
    Tell me how you build a house in another comment.


    Sincerely
    Alberto

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