Our first collaborative project began before we even started school... Ollie's Travels. In this project (which our class is hosting), our buddy Ollie is attempting to travel to a classroom in each of the 50 states before school lets out!

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We've been having the best time with the Chicka Chicka Letter Exchange! We have teamed up with 25 other classrooms. Each classroom was responsible for creating one letter of the alphabet and decorating it with items that start with the same letter. It's been so much fun receiving each letter in our mailbox and wondering which one will arrive next. We have placed our letters in a special binder... which has quickly become a favorite book to read!!

Our class made Yy! We used yellow watercolors to paint the letters and then cut them out. We glued them onto yellow paper and outlined each letter with yellow yarn for Yellow Yarn Y's!!

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We participated in the O.R.E.O. Project (Our Really Exciting Online Project)! We attempted to stack towers of cookies without causing a tumble. Before starting, we recorded our estimates. Each student had two opportunities to make a free-standing tower. It was interesting to compare our estimates with our actual stacking totals. Then, each students' highest cookie count was averaged to create our class average-- an amazing 16 cookies! Our average is posted on this site (as well as averages from classrooms in 47 states and 3 countries!!).

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Through the Seasonal Changes Project, we adopted a tree and we will make observations during each season. We are also collecting and comparing our data with other students throughout the world! For one week in October, February, and April, we will record daily temperatures (at 12:00 NOON) and times of the sunrise and sunset. We will also make observations of our adopted tree and our outdoor clothing during these observation times.

Click HERE to see our tree and our observations! Then click below to see how our data compares with the other participating classes.

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During the last week of October, we participated in the Pumpkin Seed Counting Project! Our class weighed and measured a HUGE and small pumpkin. Then we estimated the number of seeds inside each pumpkin. We were surprised when we actually counted to find out that the HUGE 20 lb. pumpkin had 778 seeds and the small 2 lb. pumpkin had 389 seeds! Visit the project page to see how our results compared with other classes around the world!!

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One of our upcoming projects is Salute to Seuss! We will create a project or two based on stories by the legendary Dr. Seuss... also known as Theodore Geisel.

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