"I nearly

fell to the floor when I saw the Nickelodeon truck pull up this morning.

I'm just so excited," said Alix Curry about the once-in-a-lifetime

opportunity to make an appearance on one of her favorite television shows.

Brian Tolleson,

the show's director and producer, also is a former student of the school

and the son of Carolyn Tolleson. Naturally he could not bypass an opportunity

to feature his mother's class on the popular children's program.

"It's

good to be back where you first got your perspective and it's a wonderful

experience to be able to work with my mom on this project," he said.

Weeks before

the film crew arrived, the students started preparing for the big day

slimes, egg salad, honey and mushroom soup, and voted for the one they

liked best. Using line charts and bar, line and pie graphs, the students

plotted their conclusions to determine the class' favorite slime.

The winning

slime, honey, will be placed in the mystery bucket in the "Slimetime

Live" studio in Orlando, Fla., and poured on a winning contestant

during one of the games featured daily on the program.

"This

was a good hook for our lesson on math. The students really got excited

about the lesson when the slime was introduced," said Tolleson.

Once the film

crew got to the school, the math lesson continued during the game of slimy

dodgeball. Students were given the answers to math problems ahead of time.

After the problem was read by show cohost Jonah Travick, the student with

the correct answer had to try to catch a balloon filled with green slime.

If the balloon dropped to the ground and splattered the green goo, then

the student was "slimed out of the game." The last student standing

who had not been splattered with slime was the winner.

After numerous

balloons of slime had splattered on her classmates, Jaquline Harp emerged

as the big winner. Her prize was a pie in the face. Even her teacher got

rewarded with a big bucket of green slime dumped on her head at the end

of the show.

"I had

a lot of fun. I enjoyed the slime and I can't wait to see it on TV,"

said student Josh Guerra.

In addition

to connecting math with the Nickelodeon visit, Tolleson's class also combined

it with a language arts lesson by writing essays about their favorite

after school activities.