Aveson assigned an optional Family Project that was due this week. They’ve been studying American landmarks and symbols and they were asked to choose a country, learn about its landmarks and symbols and make a replica of one place there. Ezra, of course, chose Belize, and he wanted to make the Mayan temple we climbed this past summer.
We thought for a while about building materials, and on Sunday he built “El Castillo” from the Mayan ruins at Xunantunich made out of chocolate marshmallows. Here are some pictures of his process. (Finn got into the act and made a project of his own.)
On Monday afternoon, I put together some pages with a few facts about Belize and Xunantunich and he glued on pictures from our trip there and stapled it into a book. Today, he presented his project to the class.
He was very proud.
After school we were able to take a look at all the projects and I took a few pictures.
Ruby’s bald eagle.
Lucy’s Eiffel Tower.
And one of the second graders did Stonehenge! (Minus the band.)
Ezra’s was clearly the best and most thought out of all the projects. What are we going to do with our swelled heads from having such brilliant children. Hope it makes up for the fact that Jamma can’t spell and often uses the totally wrong work. We may need to go to Guatemala this summer or Cuba even better. Pretty soon it will be into the new year and we will be looking at dates. I can’t wait. Ruby’s bald eagle is quite impressive if I do say so myself.