I feel like we just came charging into 5th Grade. There was no gradual review process this year, ya know, where you catch up on every thing you forgot all summer? Poor Chase has had hours of homework every night, he has to read for 30 minutes and practice his instrument for 30 minutes. Add dinnertime into that, and it's bedtime before we even know it. So when he brought home a paper about this huge Geography project I nearly cried!! We worked on it together every night for a week, but when we finished, it looked really awesome!! He really did most of it, and the ideas were mostly his as well. I was just there to help, cause this would have taken him a month on his own!
I tried to show a picture that showed the 3-D effects that we did. We used Salt Dough for the mountain ranges/canyons. Then we used flags and pins to label everything. I was really proud of him! Scott helped him take it to school and said it was by far the best one!
We had to label each state and capital. Two: peninsulas, straits, bays, canyons, lakes, tributaries, mountain ranges, capes, & gulfs. Thank goodness for Google! How did I ever survive school with out it??
I sure hope we don't have huge projects on a regular basis. This one was exhausting:)
1 comment:
That looks like a really neat project. It sounds like he is really busy in school. Get use to him having a lot of homework. Parents play a big role in how successful their kids are and you are doing a great job.
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