Mmmm... Candy Islands

Here you can see Athena giving the once-over to her latest magnum opus: A candy island made of marshmallows, Rollos and candy fruit slices. She's doing this for a school project where she had to make something with 100 separate objects. If you bother to count all the elements, you'll see that there are 100 pieces there (well, there are at least a couple of pieces hidden by the Rollo palm tree. Even so). I particularly like the painted ocean, myself. I also don't remember doing as involved a project when I was her age; I guess education standards are going up.

Remember any particularly interesting projects from your own youth?

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#4 Comment from psychfun
2/21/07 1:34 AM | Permalink

Now what is the value of this...to count to 100?
#3 Comment from monponsett
1/30/07 10:52 PM | Permalink

This is the Zig Zags talking again... but Athena looks to be just old enough to appreciate the humor of a stoned friend of her Dad's coming over and just dropping her head down (mouth open) and eating all of her Rollo tree in one disgusting bite... then being like "You live in rural Ohio, kid... go find a stick or something to replace that tree I just chowed.."

Evil aside... good looking project.... and aren'tkids adoprable when they're concentrating?

I taught at a school for kids who basically hated school, so pretty much everything I tried project-wise was as eccentric as these very comments.

Offhand...my best stuff:

- divide the school (we only had 28 kids) into Minutemen and British, take the kids up to the Bunker Hill monument, put helmets on them, and have them recreate the Battle Of Breed's Hill with snowballs.

My Israel Putnam and Dr. Warren were two black kids from Cambridge, but once the fight got going, you couldn't tell. My John Stark actually placed a stick in the snow,and ordered his troops not to fire until the British passed it.

Unlike the real Bunker Hill battle, the Americans didn't retreat this time, and the two sides sort of each got behind a wall and shot at each other. The two sides didn't go to Burger King together after the fight, either... but I wasn't alive in the 1770s.

- I traded a wind speed detector I had with a fisherman I know for a 5 foot shark, and we performed a half-assed autopsy on Pier 4 in Charlestown. I wasn't a real science teacher,so the illegality of it (and dumping it into the harbor after) was lost on me until I talked to the fisherman.

One of the kids lived in a program house, and he asked me if he could keep the shark's heart or something. I figured "What the hell... nice to see the kid take an interest in science." The next day, Igot a call from his program... they thought he had killed a child and taken his heart as a trophy.
#2 Comment from krspkrmmom
1/30/07 2:33 PM | Permalink

I never did the 100th day thing (I'm guessing that's what Athena did it for), but I did make light up dice for your car, for a science fair in 6th grade. Didn't work too good...lol.

Annie =)
#1 Comment from maryrobinetta
1/30/07 2:30 PM | Permalink

I remember making a planetarium from a refrigerator box for the science fair in elementary school. My dad helped me by cutting the top of the box so it curved and then I punched holes in it using different sized nails to make the constellations.

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