We only have 13 days of school left before summer break! Hooray!! I am so ready for longer evenings & later mornings, fun summer outings, and sweaty, tired kids. (Summer-fun tired is a much better tired than school-burn-out tired.)
Danielle had to do an animal report & project this grading period. She considered picking snakes, like
Tyler did in first grade, but she settled on flamingos. She did a really good job writing her paper - definitely a keeper. I thought her project was really cute, too. She drew a flamingo pattern and then traced 20+ of them (she didn't use them all), glued parts of a feather boa on them for wings, glued them to the box, & then added beaks & legs (which was difficult since she had to reach over the attached lid). She drew the palm trees, too. I'm sure everyone got a good grade on their reports & papers, but Danielle was pretty proud of her work anyway.
Tyler was in the Lego Club this year. They met from January - April. This Tuesday the school held a silent auction to auction off the completed sets the kids put together. The starting bids were well below retail, so we bid on the largest set...and won! Tyler was SO excited. This set is for ages 16+ and has over 4000 pieces. Tyler's largest set until now had 1200 pieces, so this is a big jump. The set has 2 identical towers, so Ron and Tyler started off each working on a tower. I knew Tyler was good, but I expected this set to slow him down a little since it's for ages 16+. His group worked on another set, so he didn't have experience putting it together already, either. He hasn't had any problems at all, though. In fact, he works faster than Ron & hasn't made any mistakes at all yet. He helped Ron fix one of his mistakes, though. ;) We took it all apart on Wednesday, and they got started that night. Danielle and I help by sorting & helping to find the pieces they need. These pictures are from Wednesday, Thursday, & today.
Danielle had to do an animal report & project this grading period. She considered picking snakes, like Tyler did in first grade, but she settled on flamingos. She did a really good job writing her paper - definitely a keeper. I thought her project was really cute, too. She drew a flamingo pattern and then traced 20+ of them (she didn't use them all), glued parts of a feather boa on them for wings, glued them to the box, & then added beaks & legs (which was difficult since she had to reach over the attached lid). She drew the palm trees, too. I'm sure everyone got a good grade on their reports & papers, but Danielle was pretty proud of her work anyway. 
Tyler was in the Lego Club this year. They met from January - April. This Tuesday the school held a silent auction to auction off the completed sets the kids put together. The starting bids were well below retail, so we bid on the largest set...and won! Tyler was SO excited. This set is for ages 16+ and has over 4000 pieces. Tyler's largest set until now had 1200 pieces, so this is a big jump. The set has 2 identical towers, so Ron and Tyler started off each working on a tower. I knew Tyler was good, but I expected this set to slow him down a little since it's for ages 16+. His group worked on another set, so he didn't have experience putting it together already, either. He hasn't had any problems at all, though. In fact, he works faster than Ron & hasn't made any mistakes at all yet. He helped Ron fix one of his mistakes, though. ;) We took it all apart on Wednesday, and they got started that night. Danielle and I help by sorting & helping to find the pieces they need. These pictures are from Wednesday, Thursday, & today.
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