Snow, rain, and puff wheat

Ok busy day. Student council is going to be a blast and tomorrow we are video broadcasting messages out to the school. Should be wicked fun. In class today we worked on estimating using referents and building testing materials.

In math we had multiple mathamagicians coming up with some great ideas for how to use referents to measure Jelly Beans, Jubejubes, Cheerios, Cocoa Puffs and Shreddies. Some were bang on while others not so much. It will be a work in progress but we had some fun and maybe learned a little :)

Science was a blast the kids built cubes with toothpicks and we experimented with various connecting materials. Plasticine, Marshmallows and Puff Wheat served as our connecting materials. Much to all of our surprise the plasticine was not the winner of our challenge. The Puff Wheat was the champion of the day holding over 300 grams on its tiny toothpick frame. Check it out below. One more day and then we are off for LONG weekend! TOmorrow look for some gratitude posts from the Superheroes of Grade 3!

-Mr.G