Lucky Charms Challenge

In celebration of St. Patrick's Day we participated in a Lucky Charms Challenge! The challenge was to sort, count and graph the marshmallows in a box of Lucky Charms cereal.

On Wednesday, Mrs. Lowe gave each child a small bag with 1 cup of cereal in it. The students had to first sort the cereal from the marshmallows.  Then they separated the marshmallows into groups of moons, stars, rainbows, etc.

Next, the students counted each group of marshmallows and coloured in their graphs. Finally, we all sat together to tally how many of each shape we had in total.  Most shapes had about 40-50 marshmallows but we found over 200 moons! We practiced counting the tally marks by fives.

Our Linoit, a document that can be added to and revised by multiple groups at the same time!

On Thursday we used Skype to meet with 4 other classes from all over Canada to read a St. Patrick's Day story and discuss our results. This was everyone's first time using Skype Groups (where you can chat with multiple people at the same time). Unfortunately we had a lot of technical difficulties and the chat didn't go as well as we had hoped.

In the afternoon we got to Skype with Mrs. Liernman's class in Surrey, BC. We asked them some of our questions and they asked us some great questions too.  We discovered that both classes have "Wonder Walls" and we compared things that we are wondering about.

Skype is a great way to connect students in classrooms all over the world. We are so thankful that we are able to use such fun technology (even though it is sometimes uncooperative). One student wrote in his T.W.A.S. "This was the best day of my life because we Skyped!"

Eating our Lucky Charms and drinking festive green juice.