100,000 Visitors!

Numbers are exciting!

Mrs. Yollis' class loves to keep track of their visitors using the ClustrMap gadget in the sidebar. Recently, the visitor count read a new number, and they had to add a new place value position!

Welcome, hundred thousands place!

See if you can find a big number in your life. 

Perhaps you could ask your parents to check the odometer on the family car. It shows the number of miles (kilometers) on your car.

Mrs. Yollis' Class Journeys to South America!

Mrs. Yollis is passionate about teaching geography to children. 

She organizes the National Geographic Giant Traveling Maps for her district. 

This year her district is going to South America!

Over the years, they've explored Asia, North America, and Africa. 

Students took off their shoes and explored the continent of South America!

One student said her mother was born in URUGUAY.  We noticed that all the countries were labeled using CAPITAL LETTERS. That was helpful!

Some students counted COUNTRIES, while others looked for capital cities. One student walked the Andes Mountain Range and another swam the length of the Amazon River!  

One boy noticed that his shirt was the capital of GUYANA!  He hadn't even visited Guyana!

After some free exploration, we used the COUNTRY cards to locate all the COUNTRIES in South America. How many countries were there? 

We were surprised to find Los Angeles! Who remembers where this city is located? What COUNTRY?

BRAZIL was so large, we could all sit inside its borders!

 Next, we decided to create a human ClustrMap! First, we  examined our South American map.

We tried to identify the cities that went with the larger dots. Many of the cities were capital cities!

Everyone got their visitor dots ready! 

Behold! Our Human ClustrMap of South America! Can you name any of the cities?

Mrs. Yollis pointed out Angel Falls in VENEZUELA. Does anyone know any fun facts about the famous waterfall? 

Have you ever visited a country in South America? If so, tell us about it!

Research and share some interesting facts about South America. Remember, do not plagiarize!  

(To plagiarize mean you copied someone else's work and are passing it off as your own.)

Visitor Count Palindrome!

This week we noticed that the Visitor Count number was a palindrome!

pal • in• drome (noun)

a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, e.g., madam or nurses run.

Do you see any palindromes in your life? 

Please share a palindrome or two in the comment section!

Remember, look to see if your palindrome has already been mentioned!

When do you think the blog will hit 100,000?

Place Value Fun!

Mrs. Yollis' new students are reviewing numbers. 

Today they looked at the different forms a number can take.

They used their ClustrMap for practice!

The symbols 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are digits.

Standard form: A way of writing numbers using digits


Expanded form: A way to write numbers by showing the VALUE  of each digit


Word form:  A way to write numbers using words

Tomorrow, everyone is hoping for this palindrome!
(A palindrome a word, phrase, or sequence that reads the same backward as forward, e.g., madam or nurses run.)

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Several students played Digital Dog Bone at home last night!

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 The class played manual Dog Bone in class. They used their hand to place a number in the correct location on the hundreds chart.

Some numbers were easy to place like:  1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 30, and 100. Others numbers were more difficult to place, especially if the hundred chart was empty!

Have you played Dog Bone? If so, how many bones could you place in one minute? 

Which numbers are easy to place and why?

What are some strategies you use to place your number quickly?

50,000 Visitors!

Over the weekend, it happened! 

Look closely at the six ClustrMaps below. What do you notice about our visitors?

North America

South America

Africa

Europe

Asia

Australasia

Please share some of your observations about our visitors! 

Do we have more coastal visitors or are they more inland?Are any of our visitors from urban centers? 

What do you ♥ about this global learning community? 

Human ClustrMap of Africa!

This week, Mrs. Yollis' class will be in Africa!

Well, not really. They will be on 

National Geographic's Giant Traveling Map of Africa!

Today, the class recreated the ClustrMap from our blog.

Here is our human ClustrMap!

How did you like your first day in Africa? 

What activity did you enjoy the most?

Which country was easy to find? Which country was difficult to locate?

40,000+ Visitors!

Mrs. Yollis' class was astounded when they checked the daily visitor count today!

Over 40,000 visitors!

Which continent has the most visitors?

What do you notice about our North American visitors? Our South American visitors?

Can you name an African country that has NEVER visited our blog?

Which continent has more visitors, Europe or Asia?

What do you notice about the Australasia continent?

Please share an observation you made by looking at our ClustrMap?

What did you learn?

The Goodbye Party Complete With a ClustrMap Cake!

Room moms Mrs. Scott and Mrs. Regan really know how to put on a party!

A fantastic Clustrmap cake celebrating our 21,489 visitors!

 Delicious pizza, yogurt, watermelon, vegetables, fruit, and goldfish!

Refreshing drinks!

Even Mrs. Yollis' orphaned hummingbird was there!

Thanks room moms and parents for a great end-of-the-year party!

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What part of the world did you eat?

Only half a day to go!

  

School's Out For Summer!

Yesterday, we had a big party to celebrate the end of the year!
Our fabulous room moms, Mrs. Yumkas and Mrs. Kumar, put together a great party complete with the perfect cake!

We have had over 2,400 visits from
63 different countries!

Comment Counters logged more than 500 comments!

Congratulations bloggers!

Goodbye to my third graders!

I know you'll do well in fourth grade!

With love,
Mrs. Yollis :-)