What's For Lunch?

Delmar Elementary School in Maryland, USA and Yamato Elementary School in Japan

Celebrating 10 years of online projects with our friend and teacher - Isamu Shimazaki!
1995-2005

Our long time friend and teacher at Yamato Elementary in Japan, Isamu Shimazaki, sent us an email on October 29, 2005 and a picture of a school lunch at Yamato Elementary:

"How is your school lunch?" is our theme for this year.

We want to study about school lunch all over the world. We have some problem about that though. There are many students do not finish their lunch completely. So there are many leavings everyday. This is a serious problem. How do you manage your school lunch? Another question is "Do you have breakfast every morning?" Something like that we are planning to work with global project.

Delmar students in Mrs. Weeg's classes are excited about an exchange with Japanese friends. We went to the cafeteria today to meet with some of our cafeteria ladies. They were a big help! They helped us list all the fruit that students can get in school lunches at Delmar. Mr. Isamu's students are busy gathering data from their survey: "What is your favorite fruit at school?" and Delmar students are doing the same.

Watch our project grow...!

  1. Favorite Fruit surveys - Delmar and Yamato
  2. Food trays at Delmar Elementary
  3. Isamu's cellphone and PDA
  4. Making graphs for our data
  5. Breakfast at Delmar Elementary
  6. Delmar students tasted a persimmon!
    1. Grade 2
    2. Grade 3
    3. Grade 4 (10:00)
    4. Grade 4 (10:45)
    5. Grade 4 (11:30)
  7. Resources for our project
  8. Connections to Maryland Voluntary State Curriculum.
  9. Integrating math skills into our project - Delmar students
  10. A Letter from Isamu to Delmar students - November 7, 2005
  11. Delmar students sharpened their map skills by making maps for our project:
    1. Maryland - showing the town of Delmar
    2. Japan - showing Yamato City
  12. Delmar students counted money to show the price of a persimmon in their town.
  13. Delmar students graphed favorite fruit data and interpreted it.

We have new friends in American Samoa!

  1. Letters to friends in American Samoa from Mrs. Weeg's grade 2 students
  2. Letters to friends in American Samoa from Mrs. Weeg's grade 4(a) students
  3. Letters to friends in American Samoa from Mrs. Weeg's grade 4(b) students
  4. Letters to friends in American Samoa from Mrs. Weeg's grade 4(c) students
  5. Letters to friends in American Samoa from Mrs. Weeg's grade 3 students
  6. Letters from our friends in American Samoa!
  7. Snow in Maryland! and schools were closed on December 6, 2005

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Patti Weeg
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updated December 3, 2005