Our class is so excited to join 4000  classes from all over the USA in a great internet project sponsored by TechnoSpud.  Our assignment was to divide a 14 oz. box of General Mills  Lucky Charms Cereal into eight marshmallow shapes.  We then had to count the number of each shape and report the totals online.

   Mrs. Davenport emptied the box of cereal into a gallon zip bag.  Everyone could clearly see how much was in the bag.  We estimated if there were more oat cereal or more marshmallows.  We graphed our results and 14 thought that there were more oat cereal and 3 thought there were more marshmallows

      Mrs. Davenport divided our class into 3 groups.  She gave each group two plates.  We separated the oat cereal and marshmallows.  Mrs. Davenport emptied all  these into two gallon zip bags.

        We all looked at the bag of marshmallows and decided how many marshmallow there were all together.  This is what everyone estimated.

The actual amount was 739..  The winner is in red.

        Our next assignment was to estimated which marshmallow shape we thought would have the most.  Pot of Gold got the most votes.

    Mrs. Davenport divided the class into 3 groups.  Each group got a plate of cereal and two bowls to separate the cereal from the marshmallows.

         Mrs. Davenport poured all the marshmallow shapes that were the same into small zip bags and we counted the shapes.  We tallied all the different shapes and recorded our findings on a large graph.  We then recorded these results on our own individual graphs.  Moons won for having the most.  We also tallied all the shapes together and found out that there were 739 marshmallows. We submitted our findings to TechnoSpud.  They were nice enough to send us a certificate for participating.

Ms. April made our class a cake to celebrate our project

   We really had a great time with this project.  Click on the Leprechaun below to visit their site.

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