#12/366--Counting Jar

I send home a daily counting jar (it's a peanut butter jar) for the students to fill with items and bring back so we can estimate and count, together as a class, then record in our "Counting Jar books."  One little boy brings back the jar, filled with pinto beans.  Pinto beans.  I explained that it was too much for us to count as a class and to try again.  I gave him some ideas, etc.  So he brings it back again today.  Pinto beans.  Half as many.  Oh well.  We counted them anyway.  In groups of ten.  390.  Yes.  39 sets of 10.  With a group of 20 kindergartners, sitting ever so patiently, as kindergartners do....good times.