Halloween Surprises
Mrs. Pennington was missing this Halloween! In her place was substitute teacher, Miss Viola Swamp! She never smiled, attempted to make the children do dull practice work ALL day, and spoke with a scratchy voice. The class was happy to have Mrs. Pennington back the next day.
The surprises kept coming! Who should appear at our door but a crusty old pirate named Captain Jack! He told us a bunch of good tales and even brought us some treasure --- to be eaten at home.
After our favorite pirate left, we carved our class pumpkin. We decided that an estimate of 5 seeds in a pumpkin was too few and that 1 million was too great. We decided a few hundred is a better guess and we'll count to see how close we come.
The next day we grouped the seeds in ones, tens, and hundreds and found out we had 462 seeds to toast!
