For this week... A child who loves crafts as much as I do and adds that special touch to her work (most the time).
Morgan is a good student. She cares about school and her work, although upon occasion argues the importance of certain tasks (usually the boring and monotonous ones), but with most things she does her best and likes to make it special (if allowable).
This week one of her homework assignments is her "100 day project". They celebrate their 100th day of instruction in school and for her it is this Wednesday.
As part of this celebration each student is asked to bring in a project using 100 of the same item in whichever way they choose, the only stipulation was to have it on a board, or paper plate, etc... i.e. no dioramas for this one. First we started with the concept. I am a HUGE fan of the concept process (probably goes in line with my love of planning) anyway... we came up with a few ideas and she picked her favorite:
100 SWEDISH FISH
But fish need somewhere to swim and so we provided them a background. I put glue on the pieces she chose and handed me, she placed where they went and when all was said and done we have:
At first I thought we would be spending last night painting the foam core, but low and behold our ocean-theme foam pieces kit (that I found in clearance at Walmart) had a background already provided. Could not have been more perfect and without paint to dry she finished her project early - no homework tonight!
On a side note, we found out our dog likes swedish fish, which is odd because she likes very little people food other than meat and cheese. She came over and sniffed our dish of fish, after about a minute she selected a fish and decided it was tasty. Needless to say I think it was somewhat painful to sit over the project and watch all these delicious fish being placed before her, none of which she could eat. About mid-way through she moved away to lay down and ignore us and our inedible project. :-)
2 comments:
Oh my gosh...I LOVE it!!!! That is so cute!! I love swedish fish! Especially those cute tiny red ones! I did Aidan's 100 project with him last year. We did 100 candy hearts. But we just put them in a baggie because they did something with them during class. I believe that was also "Bring a Special Person to School Day" so I got to spend the morning with him at school! :-) This was a few weeks before they moved to TX and his teacher said to me, oh my gosh, what are you going to do without your sister!! My eyes welled up SOO bad and it took everything I had to not start bawling in front of a classroom full of 1st graders and "special perons"!!
Candy hearts is a great idea too... We had star stickers for the night sky, or cupcake with 100 sprinkles, etc... as ideas - but this was her favorite. I think mostly because she LOVES to eat swedish fish. ha ha I'm glad they came back home AND that he brought you as his special person. That is so sweet.
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