Sunday, May 25, 2014

Academic Fair

Immediately following the performances by the winners of the Poetry Festival, the academic fair commenced! This was our first year at NLA, but we had heard quite a bit about what a big deal the academic fair is. And it took quite a bit of preparation.
The 3rd graders all picked a famous person to study and do a report on. This was Wyatt's first official report--complete with compiling sources, taking notes and writing the full report. He picked Henry Ford as his top choice (sticking with his love of cars) and made a board game with trivia questions for the academic fair. It was a great learning experience and definitely wasn't easy, but that's where we learn the most, right?!
(He designed the game to look like a road and even painted the wooden cars for the game pieces.)
His friends (Nate, Jack and Hunter) learning a bit more about Henry Ford.
Sadie's class had been studying the Ukraine for the past month, so each student built a typical Ukranian house to be displayed. (Sadie's teacher, Mrs. Erickson, also asked Sadie to wear a traditional Ukranian headdress that some Ukranian friends of Mrs. Erickson's sent)
Sadie's Ukranian house

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