Book Bottle Buddy Challenge

What’s your favorite book? Are you ready to encourage others to read it? Now is the time to use some writing skills and creativity for Mrs. McBride’s monthly challenge,The Book Bottle Buddy Challenge.

Reuse a bottle and get to work! All entries are due November 21st.

It’s Halloween week! Let’s have a sweet time solving tricky problems. You need to get rid of the rotten pumpkins but don’t wreck the good ones that are still edible.  Good luck!

• Pumpkin Remover
• Pumpkin Remover 2
• Pumpkin Remover 3

Extra Time?

• Read about Henry’s pumpkin and pumpkins, here.
• Learn how to make a pumpkin you can carve and light up in Hopscotch, Carve a Pumpkin!  Sign out an iPad to get started.
• Write a Halloween poem for Mrs. Eyer, Halloween Poetry.
• Create a Magnetic Halloween Poem.  Share with your teacher.
• A Candy Challenge for multiplication.  Print and complete.

Let’s enter the dizzying universe of David Carter, the man who put the POP into POP-UP! 600 Black Spots slip, spin, swirl and slide their way across the page.

What do you see? Today we will create captions for dots from different perspectives.  CAPTION THIS!

Let’s create our own book of black dots.

“The Book with a Hole blasts a hole through the middle of the book itself. Sometimes the hole is an eye the reader can look through; sometimes it is a mouth and the reader’s fingers make the teeth! The next minute it is a plate (with food drawn by the reader on a sheet of paper behind the book), an obstacle to jump across, or a saucepan. It’s crazy! It’s a Book with a Hole!” 

Challenge: Write another page(s) to Herve Tullet’s book.

Extra time?  Try this logic game, Hook.

“Augment means to add. Augmented Reality is a concept which adds a few things to our real world to make it better and interesting. The extra stuff added to the real world is the information from the internet and a lot 3d animations.”

Let’s try it!  Use the Quiver/colAR app to make your circle come alive! (Video)

Challenge Activity: The Pukeko

What’s your favorite animal?  Are you worried about an endangered species? Is there an animal that you want to learn more about?  Now is the time to use some research skills and creativity for Mrs. McBride’s monthly challenge,The Sock Challenge.

Find an old sock that lost its match in the laundry and get to work! All entries are due October 19th.

The Dot by Peter Reynolds is the story of a caring teacher who dares a doubting student to trust in her own abilities by being brave enough to “make her mark”.

Be inspired:

• Listen to The Dot Song
• Listen to Peter Reynolds talk about how he makes his mark daily and how he got the idea for his important book. Click on this link – Author, Peter Reynolds. Consider making a blank book and fill its pages with words and art of your own!

Are you up for the next challenge? Sudoku is a number placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 9×9 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the 3×3 boxes contain all of the digits from 1 to 9.

Try to complete the easy, medium and hard puzzles from class. Or go online for a daily puzzle…

SUDOKU of the day!

Sudoku is a number placement puzzle. The objective is to fill a 6 x 6 grid with digits so that each column, each row, and each of the 2×3 boxes contain all of the digits from 1 to 6.  Play online here.