This week we focused on collections of things. We estimated and then counted to find the actual amount of various items. First, we had 62 Hersey kisses. Then, we had 842 pasta noodles. Lastly, we had 372 M&M's. Through counting such large quantities, many students soon discovered they needed a strategy in order to remember their number. This became our discovery of grouping by tens and then rows of one hundred. Students were able to look at a number, such as 62 and show what the 6 stood for. Instead of thinking it stood for 6 pieces or the last group of ten counted, they now circle around the entire 60. It was really great to watch them.
Lastly, today Mrs. Krom from our PTO came into the classroom and helped us decorate our very own gingerbread house. Groups of 3-4 students went at a time and each child was able to add 6 pieces of their choice. Thanks to the donations from our families and the rest of the DBS community, there was plenty of candy to choose from. While students were helping create our real gingerbread house, others were using illustrations from Jan Brett (our current author study) to create their own paper houses.
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| Adding candy |
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| Adding even more candy! |
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| Adding Peep Snowmen to the side of our house |
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| The final product |
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| It came out perfectly unique and beautiful! |
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| Creating Jan Brett inspired gingerbread houses |
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| Counting up the M&M's |
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