Mr. O's Estimation Jug Contest

Go you!...Go you!...Go you!....You are AWESOME for playing Mr. O's estimation jug game.   You'll never win if you don't play!  Of course, you may never win anyway because HUNDREDS WILL ENTER EACH WEEK AND ONLY ONE WILL WIN!  Hahahahaha!
    Congratulations to... 

YOUR NAME GOES HERE IF YOU WIN 

If you win, you get to come to my room in the 8th grade hall for a groovy prize!  You can have your choice of any prize in the prize boxes!

Have a great day!

---Mr. O

T H E  N E W  J U G

This week's contest has to do with DEHYDRATION!  When you DEHYDRATE something, you.....just look at the picture.  It says it right there.

Pretty neat what you can do with a dictionary, huh?  Anyway.... 

This is me.  Mr. O'Rear.  Mr. O is what they call me.  Well, that's what they call me if they want to get my attention.  You could call Mr. Hillroy, or Mr. Filipkelstein or even something like Mrs. Lopez, but I probably wouldn't answer.   I answer best to just plain old "Mr. O". 

These are pears.  Not pairs, or peers or pares, and definitely not an AUPAIR, but pears.   You should get a dictionary, or open up another browser window and go to an online dictionary and look up aupair.  It's worth it.  Anyway, since tropical storm Isidore knocked the rest of my pears off of my pear tree, I had to find some substitute pears.  I had to find me a pear supplier!

These are my pear suppliers.  They own a little-known company in Cantonment called "Frank 'N Joe's Pear Supplies of Cantonment".  It's just off of Kingsfield Road.  The one on the left is Frank, and the one on the right is Bob.  

And this is what I call a pear shaver.  I know, you can also shave a potato with it.  However, you would NEVER want to shave a South American Jaboticaba with it.  Uh-uh!  Nope!  Wouldn't catch me doing that!  I just shave pears.  

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This is me shaving a pear.  Notice the Olympic caliber form, with the elbow at a slightly less than 45 degree angle, and the wrinkled brow showing concentration.  The judges like that.  I was a gold medalist in the '64 Olympics in the pear shaving event.  They don't have that event anymore...not since the accident in Mexico City in 1968.  I'd tell you about it, but I'm under a gag order.  Ask your parents what a gag order is.  

This is what pears look like if they have been shaved and sliced properly, under the "pear shaving and slicing ordinance of Florida FS.L.1.3.1".  I have a license to teach, too!

Of course, what's an estimation jug contest without a JUG!  So, I put the pears slices in this big rectangular jug I have so I can weigh the slices....

...on this NEXUS DIGITAL SCALE!  I don't have many of these things left since a bunch were stolen over the summer.  I think this is the only one I have left that works well.  New ones cost $400.00!!!  Can you believe it?  It can weigh items using GRAMS or OUNCES.  Even though the metric system of measurement is FAR superior to the English system,  I will be weighing the pear slices in OUNCES because you are American, not European.  Wouldn't want to confuse my students!

Here's how much the jug o pears weighed before I dehydrated them!  That's 90.9 ounces!  That's over 5.6 pounds of pear slices, man!  I can't wait to eat them.  Yummy!

How am I going to DEHYDRATE them you ask?  Why, in this DEHYDRATOR, of course!  It's a machine with a heat source and a little fan that blows around the hot air inside.  This circulating hot air dries out the stuff inside...in this case, pear slices.  

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My dehydrator is a Harvest Maid.  I got it as a Christmas gift about 7 or 8 years ago.  It's the best gift I ever got.  

My dehydrator has four trays.  I fill 'em up, and stack 'em up, and turn it on.  Then I go to sleep.  It takes awhile....like ALL NIGHT!!!

When it's all over with the pear slices will look like this...you can say, "The pear slices have been DEHYDRATED."

This is me standing around waiting for the pears to dry.  Actually, I just stood there a few seconds while someone took my picture.  Remember, it takes all night or all day to dry those pear slices.  By the way, you can dry other things with a dehydrator, too.  I especially love to dry fruit.  And my sister makes jerky with her dehydrator.  She also dries her wet socks!  Yuck!

This is more like me waiting for them to dry.  I'm all smiles!  I like to kick back in one of my beach chairs I have in my classroom.  I have so many students this year that I didn't have enough chairs.  So I went to Sam's Club and bought a couple of FSU beach chairs for my extra students.  The chairs even have drink holders!  Since some of my students have to use these chairs and clip boards to do their work, I have told them they can bring in drinks and use the drink holders if they want.  Nobody has brought in drinks yet.  I'll bet they think I'm joking.  I kind of joke sometimes.   

 .....And the estimation jug question is.....  

If the pear slices weighed 90.9 ounces before putting them in the dehydrator, how much did they weigh coming out, after they had been dehydrated?  Hint:  They will weigh LESS than 90.9 ounces after dehydration.  I want you to ESTIMATE to one tenth of an ounce.  That's one number to the right of the decimal.  

Examples:  10.3 ounces, 88.7 ounces, 55.0 ounces, like that.  

Make sure you type in your First name, Last name, and Estimate in ounces.  

Don't just guess, estimate!

Winner gets a prize from Mr. O!

Because of the Fall Break, the last day to estimate is:  Whenever we announce aclose to this contest....hehe!