Thursday, January 24, 2008

100 Days of School Project


Thank you to all of you who helped Katelyn reach her goal of 100 emails! It has been an exciting time as we collected the emails. (although in hind site collecting buttons would have been a lot easier! Then again, it wouldn't have turned into such a fun time of guessing how far away emails would come from, or seeing who we would get an email from next!)

To begin with we sorted the emails by the place they came from. Then with Zach's help we alphabetized the locations and grouped them by states and countries. We finally found a use for the jr. globe that has been sitting in Zach's room for 3 years! We used it and Katie and I spent time figuring out distances between Ohio and the other locations by having Katie touch the two points on the globe so we could record it on our list. Zach of course helped out by remembering the numbers and then judging which was the farthest distance.
Katelyn also enjoyed answering the questions people asked her, and then creating her cover for the binder and the awards for some of the participants with Creative Memories Storybook Creator Plus.
Congratulations to all who participated. Hope you enjoy viewing the awards. These are just the fun ways Katelyn came up with looking at her emails!

Here's the statistics for the project!
Katelyn's 100 Days of School Project
100 Emails
Some Fun Ways to Look at the Emails
Quickest Email Mrs Fields
From the Closest Location Zachy My brother, downstairs
From the Farthest Location Mr. Dan, Antarctica 10000 miles away
From the Coldest Location Mr. Dan, Antarctica
From the Hottest Location Miss. Whitlock, Anguilla
From a Doggie (and his Daddy too!) Jessie and Mr. Carl
From the most people in one Family Hamilton Family 5 emails
Favorite Email Miss Kaitie Worlds' Best Babysitter
Multiple Locations Coach Jim PA/NJ
Best Hockey Fans It's a tie between all the Strongsville Mustang
Fans and the Red Wing Fans
Mrs. Citro helped gather the most emails with all of her connections in New York

Mr. Eldred helped get the email from the farthest and coldest location

Locations, # of emails, Distance (based on our jr globe distance function)
States
Ohio 48
Alabama 1 530 miles
Colorado 1 1200 miles
Florida 3 880 miles
Illinois 1 360 miles
Indiana 1 180 miles
Iowa 3 550 miles
Kansas 1 840 miles
Michigan 3 290 miles
Nebraska 1 840 miles
New Hampshire 1 560 miles
New Jersey 1 460 miles
New York 16 480 miles
North Carolina 2 420 miles
Oregon 1 2100 miles
Pennsylvania 1 220 miles
South Carolina 1 400 miles
Tennessee 1 350 miles
Utah 1 1500 miles

Countries
Anguilla 1 2200 miles
Antarctica 1 10000 miles
Canada 2 390 miles
England 1 3900 miles
Indonesia 1 9800 miles
Mexico 1 1500 miles
New Zealand 1 8400 miles
Portugal 1 3700 miles
Scotland 2 3500 miles
Spain 1 3800 miles

1 comment:

Unknown said...

LOL! I am honored that I was able to participate in the project. In case you didn't know, Mr. Dan has a blog and he also posts pictures of Antarctica to Flickr.

Blog:
http://dadhowdy.blogspot.com/

Flickr:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/11008120@N06/