Mrs. Meacham's Classroom Snap Shots
Our Igloo
Just a Few Igloo Facts
Many students shared that their
neighbors and extended families were also involved in the collecting of milk
jugs
We started the construction phases
just before Winter break.
We had originally planned to
collect 155 milk jugs. We thought
155 jugs would do the job nicely.
As we collected the jugs, students
helped to remove the caps, allowing the jugs to air dry.
We observed that sour milk turns
bright green! Yesterday, we noticed
that sour milk jugs smell terrible!
When we were ready to construct,
students counted jugs, reunited jugs with their caps, and helped form the shape
of the igloo (a rainbow).
As rows were added, the igloo
began to expand (outward!).
Somehow the Advocate found
out about our igloo and came and took pictures of us.
We were in
the newspaper two times!
We’ve had
classes and many staff members come to see our creation.
We finished this past weekend.
Although the igloo looks a bit
lopsided, it is very sturdy. We can
easily move it around!
We took off all the caps yesterday and grouped them into groups of 10. Once we had a group of 10, we put the group into a Ziploc.
We practice counting by tens.
We had a
total of 50 groups of 10, which is the same as 5 groups of 100.
We noticed that some of the jugs didn’t have caps, because the openings were glued into the bottoms of other jugs for our “entry way” or tunnel into the igloo.
We also purposefully left on a few of the
caps, due to the terrible smell some of the jugs were giving off!
All in all, we figured that nearly
35, give or take a few jugs, didn’t have caps that we could count.
That gives
us a total of 535 jugs used!
Note: Margin of error +/- 7 jugs!