Last month at school Zach had to choose someone who he thought was an "American Hero" and do a research project on him/her. He came home with a list of people to choose from and had 2 days to make a decision. Of course he wanted to do someone who was sports related so he could actually "enjoy" the project! I have to say when he brought home the letter from his teacher I was feeling a little overwhelmed about the project not realizing how much of it they were really going to be doing at school! Zach chose to do his project on Jackie Robinson- the first black person to ever play baseball in the Major Leagues! Zach started by finding his 3 sources of information which he did just by checking out books at the library at school! Mrs Wood is the cutest librarian at the school and helped him find what he needed! Next, Zach read ALL of these books and took notes on 3x5 cards on points he would want to remember! He wrote his report all on his own which was 7 pages hand written (3 pages typed) and had to give an oral presentation to his class. I was worried about how he was going to memorize the whole thing but came to realize that after doing that much research he pretty much knew everything about him, and he was able to just get up there and "talk". I am so proud of him and all of the work he put into this report! It was so fun to sit and listen to him tell me the stories he had read about him! It was like he was really becoming to know this guy! He was so impressed with the determination that Jackie had and his motto he lived by to never give up. He was graded on a number of things and one was the costume. It ended up coming together at the end, I borrowed things from different people (thank you!) and ended up getting this Dodgers shirt and had #42 and Robinson put on the back! It was really cute! I was able to go to his classroom and listen to his oral presentation and the next night they had a "wax museum" for all the parents to come to! This is something only the 5th graders do at the school, and it was awesome! They did the wax museum at the school during the day for the students to come and see too! We just went around to each classroom and each student had to stand still and pose like a statue! When someone would "push" your button you got to talk and tell a fact about yourself and were able to move around, but when you were done, you had to freeze again! All of these kids did such a good job! It was so fun to go around and see all the different kids! We are already starting to think who Brinley will be when she gets to do it!
This was one of the poses Zach did... yes his arms got a little tired! :)
Brinley and Boston posing with Jackie!
I am so proud of you Zach for all of the hard work you put into this! Way to go for getting 200/200 points!
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That is what KC is in the process of doing now but his teacher won't let them do some one in sports, since he doesn't think they are heros. It has been like pulling teeth to get him to do it. He would be all over it if he had someone cool to do. Don't get me wrong Ben Franklin is pretty cool but.......
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