Highlights of the week!

 We had a very full and exciting week! 


On Monday, we worked on measuring pumpkins and testing their buoyancy! We made predictions about how tall our pumpkins would be as well as which pumpkins we thought would float or sink. 





On Tuesday, we went to the coulee! We practiced measuring items in nature using various numbers. We then met with Elder Saa'kokoto where we sang a song and learned some new words in Blackfoot. We also met with our artist in residence,  Karen, who taught us about land-based art! We also harvested our seeds out of the pumpkins! 
















On Wednesday, we counted our seeds! This was a challenge to find effective grouping strategies to help us count our many seeds. We also made some remembrance day art!









On Thursday, we practiced our sketching skills by deeply noticing shapes and details of pumpkins! We also had flashlight stories with Mr. Tomczyk! 




On Friday, we explored describing pumpkins using all 5 senses in our writing! We started off by doing a taste test of pumpkin seeds and brainstormed descriptive words to use with our sentence frame. We also played some charades with our new vocabulary for fall and Halloween! 














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