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gives a chance to the students to do something creative,” Naser added, “which normally you do not do in an SOL class.”
National Mole Day was October 23rd. Around the world, students and teachers held various chemistry-related activities in honor of Amadeo Avogadro, an Italian scientist and one of the fathers of physical chemistry.
Of course, do not look for Rappahannock’s students to be crunching numbers for their chemical formulas during the party.
Junior Jake Dore learned that chalk does not taste too good. He volunteered to be the “mole” for Whack-a-Mole, a game where students pelted Dore with wet sponges as he stuck his head through a board.
“I got a mouthful of chalk water,” he said, “because a couple of sponges had chalk on them. I also tried to talk (senior) Corey Hitt into being the mole, but he declined.”
Hitt, a guest of the festivities, took the opportunity to hit Dore with the wet sponges.
“Our version of Whack-aMole, throwing the sponges at Jake was great,” junior Katie Long said. “That made my day.”
Whack-a-Mole played just a small part in the day’s fun. Naser had some students read poetry. Seniors Stephen Butler and Jesse Palmer entertained the fourth block physics class with music; Butler playing his bass and Palmer singing. Junior Nancy Herbert made cookies and decorated them to look like moles. And of course,
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