Students churn out toys to raise money for books
By Jodi Heckel
Friday April 4, 2008
Vanda Bidwell
Art Team member Dreshianna Bishop looks at finished tops. Martin Beberman's 3rd graders at Dr. Howard school in Champaign have formed a factory to make tops, using math,science and art. They are going to sell the tops to make money for the library.
CHAMPAIGN – The factory opened at about 8:15 Thursday morning, and the employees were soon hard at work.
Some of them sanded round wooden discs, and some cut dowel rods into pieces. Others assembled the pieces into tops.
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