CHIPPER STUDENTS TEST SALESMANSHIP SKILLS.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Daily News Staff Writer On-line means off diet today at Newhall Elementary School elementary school: see school. as student leaders begin their second day of selling chocolate chips Chocolate chips are small chunks of chocolate. They are often sold in a round, flat-bottomed teardrop shape (similar to a Hershey's Kiss). They are available in numerous sizes, from large to miniature, but are usually around 1 cm in diameter. to buy computer chips. One goal of the two-day sale that started Tuesday is to raise $500 in quarters by selling dozens of Toll House cookies, brownies and anything else you can make with a Nestle chocolate chip. But the big prize is the $10,000 the Swiss-based chocolate giant is offering to one of 1,500 elementary schools in a nationwide contest. There also will be four $1,000 prizes to the runners-up. The money is earmarked for computer equipment and software to connect the school to the Internet. And with school spirit, marketing and financial results the criteria for the Nestle Toll House Bake Sale “Bake Sale” redirects here. For the episode from the TV show 8 Simple Rules, see List of 8 Simple Rules episodes. A bake sale is a fundraising activity where baked goods such as doughnuts, cupcakes and cookies, sometimes along with ethnic foods, are sold. Contest, Newhall is on a roll. There are, teacher have learned, innumerable ways to incorporate chocolate chips into the curriculum - and none is fattening fat·ten v. fat·tened, fat·ten·ing, fat·tens v.tr. 1. To make plump or fat. 2. To fertilize (land). 3. . For example, fourth-graders in Mary Ried's class now know just how many chocolate morsels run the perimeter of classmate Kaison Amini. Ried traced the youngster and the kids did the work. ``Why did we pick him? . . . Because he was there,'' Ried said. English classes wrote essays about their favorite cookies with first prize going to Jennifer Cullen who loves watching the chips melt in the oven and lives for the ``divine aroma'' of baking cookies. A coloring contest for kindergartners had Danielle Cavanagh as its winner. Danielle filled her page with a crayoned picture of a giant chocolate chip cookie cookie File or part of a file put on a Web user's hard disk by a Web site. Cookies are used to store registration data, to make it possible to customize information for visitors to a Web site, to target Web advertising, and to keep track of the products a user wishes to with the tag line tag line also tag·line n. 1. An ending line, as in a play or joke, that makes a point. 2. An often repeated phrase associated with an individual, organization, or commercial product; a slogan. Noun 1. : ``The bigger the better.'' Science projects analyzed an·a·lyze tr.v. an·a·lyzed, an·a·lyz·ing, an·a·lyz·es 1. To examine methodically by separating into parts and studying their interrelations. 2. Chemistry To make a chemical analysis of. 3. the chocolate chip cookie. Today's bake sale is the work of the Newhall School Service Organization whose 40 student members joined teachers, staff and others who baked cookies and brownies. The goodies good·y 1 Informal interj. Used to express delight. n. also good·ie pl. good·ies Something attractive or delectable, especially something sweet to eat. are on sale during lunch from 11:30 to 1 p.m. on the campus quad. Monday's kickoff looked successful if not downright down·right adj. 1. Thoroughgoing; unequivocal: a downright lie. 2. Forthright; candid. adv. Thoroughly; absolutely. scrumptous. Parent Sue Feldman was the boss, training her assembly line staff with military precision. Cookie-shape name tags were the uniform, gloves for the servers who place goodies in Baggies and nobody who touches money touches the food. ``The money's been in their pockets, it's been in their shoes,'' Feldman said. ``We don't want it to touch the hands that touch the food.'' ``Form one line behind this kid in the red shirt,'' shouted student treasurer Courtney Wooten as the lunchtime crowd gathered for dessert. ``Look, there's no more room in the quarter slot,'' President Stephanie Weston said when the rush was over. CAPTION(S): Photo Photo: The two-day sale of chocolate-chip baked goods got under way Tuesday at Newhall Elementary. Shaun Dyer/Special to the Daily News |
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