monday found us working with chemistry. elements and the periodic symbols. to make compound reactions easier to understand... i listed about 12 different chemicals and other liquids and had tommie read a chart, which described what elements each one was made from. then he took a toothpick and a designated jelly bean: carbon was a black jelly bean, a red jelly bean was hydrogen, an aqua jelly bean was oxygen, etc. and threaded the jelly bean through the toothpick. he made a little color chart and affixed it to the poster board for easy reading. this gave him a clearer picture of how elements make up atoms. and, yes... we filled our cheeks with these yummy jelly belly's!