“Let’s get cloving!” “I can Harlic wait!” Lots of excitement and smiles filled the Halls of 3rd grade this morning! The children ran their Harlic Garlic company! Each had a job to do and was very serious about it! We had cashiers, greeters, food samplers, stockers, baggers, and kids running t- shirt sales. This was …
Monthly Archive: November 2014
Nov 21
3rd graders and Money
Since we are almost done with our garlic company, we thought it would be fun to peek inside the mind of a 3rd grader to find out what they would do if they had 10,000 dollars. Now it did require a bit of prep because some of them talked about buying a house or buying …
Nov 11
More packaging
We have had more reading groups working together to look at different packaging. They had to say what they liked about it, what was bad for the environment, and also what they would do to improve the packaging for the environment. One product was made out of 100 percent recycled card board and corn starch. …
Nov 11
Harlic Buttons
Nov 04
Taking a closer look at packaging
After our book The Stinking Story of Garbage, we decided to take a closer look at landfills and learn just how long it takes items to decompose. Group 2 was first to learn this, and group 1 and 3 will start tomorrow. We learned that glass, styrofoam, and tinfoil do not ever decompose! That is …
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