February Estimate Jar

 Today, we got to do our February Estimate Jar. Each student wrote down their estimate on their white board. 

We discussed our rules for counting objects. We decided that counting one item at a time would take us a long time so we did groups of 2 to speed things up and practiced counting by 2's today.

Then for the big moment...we all took a turn going around the class and sharing our estimate. We compared numbers and how far away our estimate was from the actual total we had of candies. 

Reed was the lucky winner this month, as he guessed 50 chocolates and there was 48 in the jar! This is the second month in a row Reed has won, so he is an estimating superstar! He was super kind to share the candies with everyone in class today (we each got 3!) and students have brought home their treats! The winner also got to take home the leftovers! Score! The treat was chocolate loonies, so the students were wishing it was real money instead of chocolate !

Students are excited to see what it will get filled up with next month!