Look What’s Happening in Room 102!

Today we counted the seeds from the small pumpkin – while our pumpkin soup was cooking in the crock pot. Yum! Well, first we made some estimates. We knew there were less seeds in the small pumpkin than the medium and large pumpkin by looking at the bags. Some estimates we came up with were 100, 150, 200, 300, 302 and 308. We had counted by 10s and 5s yesterday so today we counted by 2s. I gave each child a small handful of seeds and they put them on their desk in a line of 10 seeds counting by 2s. Then we added up all our groups and I made the seeds on the board. We counted 230 seeds. Next, on a piece of paper we made the number of seeds that the medium pumpkin had -480 seeds. We needed to count by 2s, 5s or 10s. When counting it is important to be organized so it is easy to count. We are really trying to be accurate. See below some pictures of our work in progress.