First Mystery Number Skype

Today we enjoyed our first Mystery Number Skype with a third grade class in Joliet, Illinois.  They are also participating in the Global Read Aloud 2014, and we had a chance to discuss our book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane with them after the mystery number skype activity.  Prior to the call, our class selected the number 95 as our mystery number, and we brainstormed questions we could ask their class to figure out the number they had selected for us to guess.  I was so impressed with how the class used the yes/no questions to help them zero in on the mystery number.  We had several team members who were at the whiteboard recording answers to our questions, a team member who marked off our large white hundreds board, and the rest of our team used their individual hundreds charts to figure out their number (which was 45).  Students took turns asking and answering questions.  It was a great team math thinking activity, and we hope to participate in several more this year. 

Their class is enjoying our #GRA book as much as we are.  We were definitely in agreement on the saddest part of the book.  It was interesting to hear their predictions about how they think the story will end.  Great books can definitely be enjoyed all over the world as the Global Read Aloud is showing us!  Be sure to ask your third grader about Edward's journeys in the book.