Hi parents!

Happy Halloween! Take a look at what we’ve been up to! 🙂

• This week we have been working to figure out how many yellow spotted lizards could fit lined up across the bottom of one of the holes at Camp Green Lake. Each group has been using their own strategy and working through various challenges. We are practicing convincing ourselves, convincing a friend, and then convincing a skeptic. The more we’re able to talk through our thought process and explain our reasoning, the deeper our learning — even if we get the “wrong answer”! Next week we will make visual representations of our answers — stay tuned!! 
• We revisited graphs this week! This time we did a little TRICK-or-treating with them… actually just trick! We found the mistakes in a few example graphs that were deceiving or had errors in their data. For example, if we weren’t skeptical of the data, we might have thought that a tiger was taller than a hippopotamus! After practicing finding the errors, we made graphs of our own with hidden discrepancies. Next week we will have a class gallery walk of the graphs to find our classmates’ tricks!
• On Wednesday, we were lucky enough to have Ms. Vash come join our class for some community building activities. As we are continuing to define our own identities as well as our community identity, she will meet with us each week to practice important positive socials skills and help us set our classroom norms and expectations.
• We enjoyed a couple spooky Mystery Science videos throughout the week! We learned about bugs and about candy. The candy video inspired us to conduct our own candy experiment. We conducted experiments dissolving candy corn and making Frankenstein gummy worms! Today we got moving practicing percussion to the Addams Family. It was so much fun and an awesome way to connect with the music! 
• More fun from the week!