We made it to the next major milestone! We have 100 000 bread tabs. The kids are so excited.
I had been out of the room in a Professional Development session all day, and just came back to the room to wish them a good evening. Three or four students immediately ran over to me and said, "We only need 500 more to get to 100 000!" (The math teacher in me got excited that they are recognizing the changes in the decade numbers, but I digress) The next morning, can you guess how we began the day? The bags got filled quickly and they ran to the office (even though they shouldn't have been running in the hallways) to make sure this major event made the morning announcements.
We began, student by student, dumping in the thousands bags and ten thousands containers into our "hundred thousands" container. Around 78 000, we ran into a problem. The container was not big enough! Who would have guessed that an 89.9 litre container would not be big enough to hold 100 000 bread tabs. We are currently searching for a 120-125 litre clear plastic container to store our 100 000 treasures.
Recently there was a piece on the regional news about another teacher who had done the exact same thing. My mom called me about it. My math coach sent me the newspaper article via e-mail and the guidance counselor at our school photocopied the article and brought it in. They were all very supportive. My first thought was, "How could there be two teachers crazy enough to take on this project?" My second thought was, "I'll just have to do it faster!" Yes, this has brought out my competitive spirit!
He collected for 23 years to get to one million bread tabs. Boy, I hope it does not take me that long. I'm only going to be teaching for another 18 years. At the rate we're going, we should be able to complete our quest for the millionth bread tab in 15 years. People are amazingly supportive of my plastic tab insanity.
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