Cans, cans, and MORE cans!

We can hardly believe the second week of our Food Drive is almost over! We're so thankful to all of the amazing Stony Point kids who've been carrying in these heavy cans of food for the past two weeks. The boxes in our hallway are pretty close to overflowing which means we've had a LOT of adding to do. Every day we add the totals from Ms. Bindas, Mrs. Laubscher, and Ms. Payne's classes to find our grand total. We've tried a few different strategies for finding the sums of numbers over the past week. Look below to see some quality examples of different addition strategies we tried...

CJ decided to try a new "Ones & Tens" strategy

Max decided to "upgrade" the Ones & Tens strategy we tried

Mallory added two numbers with mental math,
then took the sum and added the next number...efficient!

Lainey also decided to use the Ones & Tens strategy

Ty'onte created her own strategy for checking
her accuracy using check-marks

Food Drive 2011

Yesterday kicked off the 3rd grade's annual Food Drive! (Info above just incase you haven't heard!) All of our preparation before Thanksgiving Break paid off as we collected lots of cans and boxes from every classroom yesterday. Before break we prepared a speech for every class in the school to inform them about the Food Drive and encourage them to bring in canned and boxed items. We also created a bar graph to go outside of each room to keep them updated on their class progress. Here we are preparing and practicing our speeches and creating our graphs...

Ty'onte and Macy read over their speech for
Mr. Matt's 1st graders

Kristina, CJ, and Kirsten put the finishing touches on their
speech for Mrs. Burnette's class

Lainey reads over her and Max's speech for Ms. Braun's class

Ginger and Ella practice the speech they'll read
to Ms. Laubscher's class

Ella, Henry, and Dylan get the bar graph ready
for Ms. Bolton's 5th grade learning cottage

Check back SOON to see the totals from our first day of food collecting!