Continued from here. I am continuing this in the Private section to avoid Googlebots since there is a photo attached (at the time I posted).
Last night the 8YO and his mom got home around 530 pm. We had dinner and then she went back to her old apartment to do some sorting. My soon to be stepson and I started on the project at 7. The goal was to be done by 8:30. Yeah....ok.... The research (finding "facts") had been googled the day before by him. He needed to narrow down and simplify some of these facts down to about 3 large index cards for his presentation and his poster. We sat on the couch together and I gave him a highlighter (flashbacks to Watchtower lessons...**shudder**lol)...
He found facts that he liked and answered some of the questions the teacher said needed answering. I circled 3 of the sets of facts and sat him at the computer and had him type them into Word. Didn't matter that it would take 10 times as long versus me doing it...he was doing it. I had a kitchen to clean.
He got that done... then we sat down together and simplified both what he typed and pulled some other facts (these I copy/pasted and edited myself...no way in hell was I doing all that typing..) The 8YO notices this and says... "hey, I typed all that for nothing..." uhhhh.... "no, because it helps you remember the facts for your presentation."
I give him a 10 minute break because I have to trim one of the pieces of posterboard to fit the foam board it was to be mounted on. I wasn't letting him use my sharp box cutter...heh heh.... I reformatted his facts with boxes so he could cut them himself.... I knew it wouldn;t be perfect, that is not the point (or so I thought)...the point was he did it. Once all the elements were cut out (at the last minute, he wanted to fill a space with a cut out of the eel...ynot posted the exact same drawing that we had...8YO traced that..very well I might add...added some detail... and I cut it out...he then glued all the elements onto the board.... we got finished about 8:45...little later than I had planned...
I took him to school...of course, I got in trouble with the crosswalk lady because I parked in the yellow zone...what yellow zone? I parked away from the crosswalk? Oh, you mean the very faded yellow paint covered in leaves that the city (the same city that sends its cop to harrass me for open burning...lol) hasn't bothered to repaint? That yellow line? Noted for future reference. She was nice, I was nice...I locked the car and crossed the street.
I get to the classroom and several other parents were there with their kids projects. Are you freaking kidding me? There was entirely too much parental involvement in several of them. Good thing I printed out the facts instead of having our 8YO hand write them. I though ours was nice....one kid would have done a PowerPoint if he had known it was allowed...another of the kids had no index cards for his presentation...because he had memorized it....sh*t....how gifted are these kids? Well, our 8YO went over his presentation with me...after each sentence he looked up at me (10 points for eye contact......flashback to Theocratic Ministry School...**shudder**)
Hope he does a good job....wish I could have been there to hear it.
Snakes (Rich )
I am posting his picture here in the Private section. He posed like that with no prompting..... I hurriedly took a pic with my cell phone as we were leaving today. I debated about cropping him out but his mom had said she didn't mind if I posted so I hope that is still OK.... so if the pic is gone, its because I removed the photo from photobucket to break the link. You cannot see the detail of the facts because its a 1.5 MP cell phone... The picture in the center and the drawing in the upper left you can see under ynots post on page 1...same ones. the tracing of the eel is on the right...the other 3 elements are various facts about the eel.
