Halloween Fun!

Monday, October 31st was Halloween.

Students dressed up as their favorite book characters. What a wonderful literary day!

At the end of the day, we had a Halloween celebration. We had five stations: a Ghoulish Bingo, a Ghostly Pumpkin Creation Game, a Gargantuan Pumpkin Measurement Station, a Frightful Spider Creation Station, and a Mysterious Charades and Pictionary Game. 

What fun the third graders had!

Let's take a look at all their adventures...

Here they are at the Ghoulish Bingo

All Photos by Ms. Tulbure

Here are students rolling the dice to create their Halloween Pumpkin

What frightful fun at Charades!

(can you guess the topic?)

Minds hard at work at the gargantuan pumpkin weighing station

This must be a ghost pumpkin to weigh zero pounds! 

Who can solve this mystery?

 And for the scariest of them all...the spiders and other Halloween creatures made of delicious treats!

What was your favorite Halloween activity?

Who was your favorite literary character? Tell us a bit about them. 

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?