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comments are not solicited in anyway but are greatly appreciated!!
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Teachers
Say The Nicest Things.....
Suzanne
Jensen
Kula, Maui
My
class enjoyed a "wide range" of projects this year! As a teacher,
I appreciate the variety of activities from seasonal (1 day projects)
to the literature based projects (Curious George). Being a first grade
teacher, I tend to look for projects that I can incorporate into my language
arts curriculum and (of course) expose my students to the "world
of technology." All of your projects have enabled me to do that!
(Mahalo!)
Jamie
Prock
North Dakota
Thank
you , for helping me get in touch with this school. My class in North
dakota has been writing back and forth with a kindergarten class we adopted
because of the Dear Friend project. We have sent supplies for both the
students and teachers at Christmas. For Valentines Day, my class donated
75 books to help rebuild Mrs. Mullins Kindergarten class library. I was
even able to talk to Mrs. Mullins on the phone. Her class has even taken
the time to put together a learning box for my class. They have sent us
materials to learn about Mardi Gras. Thank you for making this process
happen . It has been a great learning experience on both ends. :)
Linden
Public Schools, New Jersey
Sally Stevens & Christine Hudak
Thank
you for providing the educational community with such a wonderful project.
Eight of our elementary schools participated in this project with a total
of 82 teachers. It was interesting to observe the various teaching methods
and styles that were used by our teachers to arrive at the project results.
Our students had a great time interpreting the data and eating the FroolLoops!
Thank you once again for your hard work. It was greatly appreciated.
Lakeland
Elementary, Tennessee
Teresa McClure
This was a super project! We actually used it as
our Science Fair entry, and placed in our category! My class had a great
time doing the project and collecting all the data! It really helped them
with predictions, graph making concepts and their budding technology skills.
We'll definitely be participating in the next project of Jennifer's!
Peirce
School, Massachusetts
Lanise Jacoby
Well, Jennifer, you've done it again!!! We're not
quite finished with "Froot Loops to the Max," but each time
we do the next step, and I say, "It's time to work on our Froot Loops
Project," the kids all yell, "Yay!!!!" - we're sorting,
graphing, adding, checking with calculators, comparing, predicting - all
with such enthusiasm! Kids even took it upon themselves during INDOOR
RECESS (we've had 15 days of below 10 degrees temperatures in MA!!) to
perform math calculations with Froot Loops data that weren't even asked
of them - now THAT is taking it to the MAX!!! Thank you!!!
Kelvin
Grove, Illinois
The students were thrilled with the project. I
had them predict the height and number of cookies in the stack. They found
that they came very close to their predictions. At first, I just had one
person measuring a stack at a time, but as we went along, I had two measure
at a time to confirm their measurements. It was a very enjoyable activty
and easy to organize. Thank you so much for the idea.
Stockbridge Plain School, Massachusetts
The class LOVED this project! It was interesting
to see some of the strategies being used. Some groups were dividing up
the amount of cookies they were given into smaller groups, stacking them,
and then putting them together for a tall stack, other groups just went
one cookie at a time. It is definitely an activity I would do again next
year. I also had each group agree on an estimate of how many cookies they
thought they might be able to stack before beginning the project.
Christ
The King, Indiana
Our class had a great time with the project. Each
group had their special stacking techniques by the third try. We discussed
our results as a class and even tried stacking the cookies one more time
just for fun with several members from each group. The comments were great!
I took a picture of one group and the student stacking said, "Hey,
you broke my concentration!" It was great to see everyone working
together trying stack the cookies. By the third try, the students would
really give each cookie the once over before using it as part of the stack.
We had a wonderful time with the stacking part of the project and plan
on having one Oreo Cookie project for the next several weeks.
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