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Rappahannock News Staff Photo/Jan Clatterbuck MT. McMILUON: Jan Makela’s students at Rappahannock County Elementary School were proud to pose next to their aluminum masterpiece - 1 million tabs. A familiar clown was there to help them celebrate from the Ronald McDonald House.
How do you build
a Mt. McMillion?
By Jan Mak e la
Special to the Rappahannock News
On Friday, February 17, the student body at RCES celebrated the attainment of a collective goal...the collection of one million aluminum tab tops. Some said it couldn’t be done, but RCES has proved them wrong.
Two and a half years ago students in Jan Makela’s 4^h grade math class were studying place value through millions, when everyone, including the teacher, realized that they were having trouble visualizing just how much a million really is. It was suggested that the class collect a million of something... and the rest is history. Mrs. Makela bought a 32gallon trash can and they began to collect. A short time later, county native and schoolteacher, Aney Massie Hoehn called to applaud the effort, because she, too, had once collected a million tabs in her much
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