Wednesday, January 23, 2002
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Wednesday, January 23, 2002 |
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Fayetteville goes live on Nickelodeon's 'Slimetime' Math can be a challenging subject but add a little slime to the equation and suddenly students cannot wait to crunch numbers. Third graders in Carolyn Tolleson's class at Fayetteville Intermediate School have been combining math and slime to get ready for their television debut on Nickelodeon's "Slimetime Live Nick-Ventures." The show airs on Nickelodeon from 4-6 p.m. Monday-Friday between regular scheduled programs, and the segment filmed in Fayette began airing Monday and runs through June 7. The "Nick-Ventures" segment of the show features activities that children like to do after school and spices them up by adding slime. The "Nick-Ventures" crew travels around the United States filming children participating in their favorite after school activities. While in Georgia, the crew decided to visit Fayetteville Intermediate and film students playing slimy dodgeball. "I nearly fell to the floor when I saw the Nickelodeon truck pull up this morning. I'm just so excited," said Alix Curry about the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to make an appearance on one of her favorite television shows. Brian Tolleson, the show's director and producer, also is a former student of the school and the son of Carolyn Tolleson. Naturally he could not bypass an opportunity to feature his mother's class on the popular children's program. "It's good to be back where you first got your perspective and it's a wonderful experience to be able to work with my mom on this project," he said. Weeks before the film crew arrived, the students started preparing for the big day by putting math and slime together. The students picked their top three slimes, egg salad, honey and mushroom soup, and voted for the one they liked best. Using line charts and bar, line and pie graphs, the students plotted their conclusions to determine the class' favorite slime. The winning slime, honey, will be placed in the mystery bucket in the "Slimetime Live" studio in Orlando, Fla., and poured on a winning contestant during one of the games featured daily on the program. "This was a good hook for our lesson on math. The students really got excited about the lesson when the slime was introduced," said Tolleson. Once the film crew got to the school, the math lesson continued during the game of slimy dodgeball. Students were given the answers to math problems ahead of time. After the problem was read by show cohost Jonah Travick, the student with the correct answer had to try to catch a balloon filled with green slime. If the balloon dropped to the ground and splattered the green goo, then the student was "slimed out of the game." The last student standing who had not been splattered with slime was the winner. After numerous balloons of slime had splattered on her classmates, Jaquline Harp emerged as the big winner. Her prize was a pie in the face. Even her teacher got rewarded with a big bucket of green slime dumped on her head at the end of the show. "I had a lot of fun. I enjoyed the slime and I can't wait to see it on TV," said student Josh Guerra. In addition to connecting math with the Nickelodeon visit, Tolleson's class also combined it with a language arts lesson by writing essays about their favorite after school activities.
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