This is a little phrase that has been floating around in my mind on occasion this past year. I have never had the chance to play the game, but I would be afraid to find out. I think of all the time I spent in school growing up and wonder how much I really remember.
The nice thing about having a lot of kids is that I get to see some of those things that I once learned. Bit by bit I catch a glimps of what they are learning in school. Right now the math is easy, but when they get older I hope I will still be able to explain the complicated steps. As for the spelling, I admit that even this morning I had to check the list to make sure Jacob was spelling a word right.
Well Samantha is wrapping up her 5th grade year and leaving elementary school behind. She has had a busy year! She started out stretched a little thin, she was in choir, orchestra, piano lessons, dance lessons, the Nutcracker, plus church activities. She loved the days where she had nothing and could just come straight home and not worry about anything else. Over the course of the year she dropped a few activities and seems a little more balanced. I can trust her to get her homework done, and we never check out enough books from the library because she goes through them so fast.
She has really shined this last year. In December she was in the school Geography Bee and made it to the top 5. As Scott helped drill her in preparation I was humbled by the fact that she knew some of the answers that I didn't. We made a big deal about the Nutcracker knowing it was a one time thing, since it was too much of a commitment to ever do it again. I had fun watching her in her orchastra concert, in February but she never liked it as much as I did growing up.
For the past few weeks she has been giving a lot of thought to her science fair project, she came up with her own idea. She wanted to see what kids of germs we come in contact with on everyday things we touch. I am not sure how the school felt as we tested the doors, handles and drinking fountains, but it was fun to watch the bacteria grow.
Well, today I had a fun day. Scott and I got to go judge the science fair at the school. I love to see the experiments and hear the kids present. Samantha had a great project but I really feel like she put her poster together last minute. Anyway I didn’t believe her when I picked her up from school that afternoon (because it was pouring rain) and she said she got 1st place. What? It wasn’t until we were in the car and she pulled out her trophy. I know she had a great project, but to win 1st place two years in a row!! What a lucky girl. After being a judge I can appreciate how it all depends on what the judge thinks, what they like and what they decided to deduct points for. She was really excited and I am really glad that she has done so well. She really like her project and all week end long keeps coming up with ideas of what she will want to do for next year.
I got to judge the classrooms so I started asking the boys
about their classroom experiments and practicing presenting. The next thing I knew we were recreating the
experiments that their classes had done and other ones that they had heard
about. Looks like we have a family of
scientists.
1 comment:
Sadly, there is no science fair this/next year.
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