Why is it at the end of the year, teachers feel compelled to assign large projects. With the exception of Zane, all the kids are concurrently working on huge projects at school. Drew is reading a Hugo Award winning novel and writing a report on it. The fun part is it's science fiction (not his favorite genre) and close to 700 pages long. He abhors every minute of it. I never thought it would be a struggle to get him to read.
Trevin is working on a group project on the Battle of Bald Hill in Atlanta from the civil war. In addition to a five page report and a 10 minute speech, he and his cohorts have to make a diorama of the battle. The boys were here last night, and I must say, it was like the blind leading the blind. It truly is a teenager thing. It is not only my children that are easily distracted and find it hard to stay on task. After 5 hours, help from Tom and I, and a lot of screwing off, they did get a pretty nice-looking diorama. I'm proud of them.
Finally, we have Austin. He is the 'Wagon-Master' of his group project which he takes very seriously. They have been studying the Oregon Trail and he has to re-create a working replica of a Oregon Trail Wagon with all the supplies included. Austin is strict on things looking real so it should be fun. I'll post pictures once we get it done.
In short, my point is, why do they assign this stuff all at the same time? Can't they take sympathy on those of us with multiple kids and spread the big stuff through out the year :) It's great though, they truly are learning a lot and I'm so proud of everyone of them!
Some family trees have beautiful leaves, and some have just a bunch of nuts. Remember, it is the nuts that make the tree worth shaking
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