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.

  Name  Estimation  Name   Estimation
  Shyanna     231  Boone    200
  Amelia   212   Olivia     291
 Jacob        Evan     258
  Austin   290  Adron      214
  Meranda    281   Peyton    229
  Kendrianna    235  Brailee    219
   Liz    215 Braxton     270
 April   208  Chase    271
       

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.

        Stars           841
      Moons         106
      Clovers         92
      Rainbows         94
      Pots of Gold         95 
      Balloons         83
      Horseshoes         86
      Hearts         99
              

 

 

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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