Science Fair

Savannah and Sid had a science fair at their school on Friday. They were assigned projects a few weeks ago to display in their classrooms for the fair. The Kindergarten class were assigned to do a project of any kind on any animal they wanted to. Sid wanted to make a clay model of a turtle and put him in a home. Paul got the materials for him and Sid did all the work (with just a little direction and supervision). Sid molded and painted his leatherback turtle himself and then Paul came up with this great idea for a home for this turtle. Sid painted the bottom of bubble wrap to make it look like water and then put glue on another part and sprinkled sand on top of the glue. His project turned out great!

Savannah's projects were much more time-consuming and difficult. Her teacher likes to be vague on what we are actually supposed to work on at home and what the expectations are. Her habitat turned out amazing, but all three of us got a little burnt by the glue gun putting it together and we didn't even know what her butterfly looked like until we were seeing it for the first time at the fair. The kids had made their insects at school and were assigned to create a habitat for the insect they chose. Savannah worked hard and we were able to create this rain forest for her blue morpho butterfly entirely out of materials we had at home.

Savannah's "simple machine" project was one that the teacher started at school and then sent home for the kids to "finish." What Savannah brought home was certainly not functional and didn't look a thing like the water well she was attempting to create. We started completely over on the project and we got a bit creative trying to design it, even though we were trying to keep it as simple as possible. It took a bit of abuse being carted home in her backpack, but still works!