We were so excited to get to do our Estimate Jar from January for our last day of January! Christopher, the Elf, happened to leave us the treats before he left for the North Pole as a surprise for when we got back in January.
Each student wrote down their estimate on their white board of how many little packaged treats were in the jar.
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 4! This wasn't exactly speedy but we were learning that we can count by any number and how that may look/sound.
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 the candies.
Ruth was our lucky winner!!! She was only 3 away from the 42 treats we had in total! She knew our tradition is to share the treats with everyone in class and students may have brought home their treats (if they didn't eat them out of their lunch today)! Ruth also got to take over the leftovers! Score!
The students are excited for what treats land in the jar for February!
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