Fair kicked off last night so Walker and Mason turned in their projects yesterday afternoon. Mason entered his series circuit for electricity. He and Bill stained the board, carefully soldered all the connections and then labeled each part. The light bulbs do illuminate demonstrating that the circuit does work. Walker met with his judge who […]
To earn the Saturday overnight between his camp sessions in July, Walker has had to really put his nose to the grindstone to finish, finish, finish his 4-H project. During Mason’s week of camp, he got the content written but it still needed to be displayed on his board. He has become quite adept at […]
Our very own Red {source} The Hoosier Wax Museum is the culminating social studies project in the fourth grade. Each student is assigned a famous Hoosier to represent in costume. When Mason told us he was assigned to be Red Skelton, I was happy. The two have similar, spunky personalities. He also had to create […]
Walker’s Language Arts class has been working all semester on a Passion Project. This is based on the Genius Hour used at Google where employees are given 60 minutes to develop new ideas or master new skills. Early in the semester, Walker had to identify his passion. Each Friday he spent his Language Arts block […]
Once again it’s time for the culminating project for the fourth grade unit about Native American Indians living in and near Indiana. Looking now at the pictures, it’s clear that Mason and Olan had a vision for how their wigwam would look. They employed creativity, craft and recycled materials and lots of glue. That house […]
Mason made fast work of painting for the traditional book character project. As Walker did, he chose a character that he could present using a good old fashioned gourd. I’m really proud of Mason’s work. He came up with the plan and painted it all himself. All I did was crochet the Lightning Balls. Here […]
It turns out that a fort can be constructed in three afternoons of class time. I had my doubts. When I left them after day one, there was still much to do. Gavin contributed and painted that boat in the back and Mason supplied all the Jamestown figures. He was excited about those and they […]
Mason’s class has been studying the founding of Jamestown in Social Studies. To culminate their studies, the students were asked to build their own replicas of Jamestown. The nice thing about this project was that it was designed to be completed fully in class. All we had to do was bring the supplies. Parents were […]
I never posted about the project that Mason finished up while I was in Los Angeles. For Black History month, each student studied a famous African American, dressed up a two liter bottle to look like him or her and wrote a report. Mason chose Tony Dungy. Tony Dungy was born on Oct. 6, 1955 […]
Knowing how much work Walker invested in his part of the colonial village, I wanted to take a tour. Let’s start at the Town Hall. Here is the print shop. I believe this one is the school. The tanner The mason I’m not sure about this one… The blacksmith The cooper Looking into the apothecary […]