Who knew how awesome dice were!!!

So while on fall break I found some awesome dice!  They are clear dice and inside the dice is another smaller dice.  I'm quite disappointed in myself for purchasing only 10 of them but they are a HUGE hit!  We've used them for both addition and subtraction games.  Today we worked on subtraction with partners.  They partnered with their neighbor and took turns rolling the dice and collecting the numbers from the double dice to write the subtraction equation.  They had to identify the larger and the smaller number and make sure they put the larger number first (no negative numbers here)!  The hands on practice has really made us all subtraction experts and as always games make any concept more engaging and fun! 

 

Fourth Grade Tall Tale Readers...

On Friday before lunch two 4th graders came to share their tall tales that they wrote with us!  We got lucky and Alister's sister was one of our readers :).  We loved their stories and everyone had a chance to ask them questions.  It was a great way to review the concept of a tall tale that we had learned about a few weeks before.

 

Happy Halloween!!!

On Halloween morning we began our morning with writing all about our pumpkins :).  Everyone was very excited about them and wrote all about how they made them step by step.  We made a rough draft then we did our final copy that was displayed in the hallway with our pumpkins!

 

 

In the afternoon it was PARTY time!  Thanks so much to all parents who helped plan, participated, sent something in, or did anything for our party!  You all rock :).

 

 

Here are some pics from the photo booth!!!