Friday, March 13, 2009

All the wonders of the Sea

Summer wrapped up her visual assignment for class last night. I have to say that I am ready for spring break. I suppose that if we hadn't waited until Wednesday to start it, it may not have been so much. But a second grader cant start without you. They have no vision, because they really have never seen any examples of projects like this. So we discussed( I told her what I thought was easiest and best based on supplies I already had in the house). There is a large world map on Grady's wall, so we used it for our inspiration. Painted some old display boards. I cut out the land masses. she labeled them and the oceans. Then we went hunting for pics of sea creatures. She found some in old coloring books, we copied a few out of a very old TimeLife book from the 70s, and I did find a couple in google images(btw-be careful what you google when searching for images. I was horrified when searching for baby seals and kept getting hits of pics of them being clubbed, thank goodness Summer was busy coloring and cutting. It was BAD.)

I was worried because I worked last night and Summer had to finish the project without me. Jason helped her label everything and she did a great job with modge-podge-ing it all down.

She is proud of it. Hope she still is after turning it in.

Summer has had a great week. She was recognized in an assembly and given a certificate for Buffalo Wild Wings. Also we got a note home that she was chosen to have lunch with the principal and a group of other outstanding students. They get to have Tony's Pizza and Sub Shop. Lucky bum! And to top it off, she won a tee shirt and some crazy sunglasses for a fund raiser.

So proud of that girl. I love weeks like this:)

9 comments:

Mandy said...

Way to go Summer!! Looks wonderful!!

Jodi said...

dang, girl! what a lucky little girl! she must be in free stash heaven!

Jodi said...

dang, girl! what a lucky little girl! she must be in free stash heaven!

Jennifer Witham Buck / Graceful Expressions said...

Wow...Great job, Summer (and Mom!) That project is definitely "A" worthy. What an outstanding student. You must be very proud!

Mya said...

Great Job Summer!! Her project looks great. Looks like it was alot of fun getting it all put together too. WTG

Theresa said...

Great Job, Summer!...looks AWESOME!

Maybe she should pick some Lotto number for you...she a pretty lucky Summer!!!

Kristin said...

Yeah Summer. Congrats on your first "official assignment"...here is to SO MANY MORE!!!!

Congrats to both of you on a great week!!!

Angi said...

This is totally adorable! Summer did a great job.

Shelly said...

Great job Summer!! What a smart beautiful lil girl you have Jenn , love the project , it turned out great!