Last week Emma Kate and I worked on a Geography project. She was initially assigned to Austria, but taking matters into her own hands, she reminded the teacher that Austria really sounded a LOT like AustRALIA . . . “where my Mom is from!” Her teacher asked her if she’d rather study Australia and Emma enthusiastically agreed. I felt like I hit the 1st grade geography project jackpot — how easy was this gonna be? Emma and I spent a week looking through old photographs and then reading several of the childrens’ books we have on various animals native to Australia. I was impressed that she not only knew where to find these books on the shelf but had apparently found other books (novels) that mentioned Australia and read those too. The child definitely knows how to research. We put the poster board together and she proudly toted it off to school for her presentation — naturally she scored a 100% (that’s my girl! 😉
Today we brought the posters home again and Spencer was looking it over while Emma gave her presentation to the captive sibling audience yet again. At the end of it Hanna said “wow, that picture of the bridge sure is pretty.” And Spencer said,”So what is that? A Sea Pig?”
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