Somehow, it’s just more fun practicing reading when you are wearing a costume.
Later, we had a google hangout with Ms. Lirenman’s class in Surrey and compared the ways we celebrated Halloween…
…and made some yummy, ghostly snacks.
Eating lunch at school is a big deal for the students. This is their first year to get to do this! It’s always fascinating to me to see who sits with who and where in the classroom the students choose to sit. This is our smallest table, but it’s almost always full, with some larger round ones staying empty.
Ms. Lirenman’s class in Surrey, British Columbia, is also learning about numbers up to twenty, so my class challenged hers to a mystery number Skype. We chose a number between one and twenty and they tried to guess what our number was by asking questions that could be answered with a “yes” or a “no”.
Their first question was, “Is it nine?” They were right!
Then we tried to guess their secret number. We had previously played the mystery number game in our class, so we knew some “fat” questions to ask such as “Does it have two digits?” but sometimes the temptation to ask “Is it four?” was just too much to resist. Finally, after lots of work eliminating numbers, we guessed it. We also let them have another turn because they were finished their turn so quickly the first time.
We had fun learning with your class, Ms. Lirenman! We hope we can do it again soon.
There was a purple pirate at our school this week! He did a play for us all by himself that showed us how important it was to be compassionate. Afterwards, he made some silly faces with us.