Boo!!

 Another Halloween has come and gone

    I remember as a kid in Chicago trick or treating from the time school let out until after 7.

    I loved the candy, especially M & Ms.  Plain ones.

    M & Ms are made at a plant in Topeka, Kansas.  I read the other day they produce 30 million  M & Ms every day!

    That's a lot of chocolate!

    When I taught science we used to do an activity with the fun size packets.  We would list the at the different colors. We would make a bar graph listing each color.  I would also ask if each pack had the same number of candies.

    Then I would give each student a pack.  I would ask the students to predict which color was most common.  

    Then I would have 1 student open theirs, sort. them, and count the colors.  I would put this information on the board.

    I would ask the question about which color is most common again.

    Another student would then open their pack and count the colors.  I would list it on the board and ask if we should change our opinion on which one is more common.

    Then I would have all of them open, sort by colors, count them all, write down the info so they didn't forget, and then eat them as I collected their data.

    I would list all the results on the board and then they would made a bar graph.

    Hopefully they  discovered ideas can change as data is collected and shared.

    The same plant makes Snickers.  The article  said it was 1,245 miles from Topeka to New York  and the plant produced enough Snickers that if you laid them end to end it would cover that distance 7 times.

    Pretty impressive.

    Last year we had over 30 trick o treaters, so I made plans for 40 this year because the weather was nicer.

    We had 8.

    Jackie suggested freezing the candy instead of having me eat it all over the next few days.

    I may do that, but I will hide a couple just for emergencies.

Peace and Love