Showing posts with label book report. Show all posts
Showing posts with label book report. Show all posts

Sunday, May 22, 2011

County Shoebox Float Report



Recently the school project for the semester centered around a report on any county of the state. Summit county was chosen and the report involved making a shoebox float to display at least 3-5 important items from the chosen county. Summit county has lots of wildlife [deer, squirrels, even the occasional bear (even if the real ones are a bit bigger than the gummy ones on display)], lots of plant life (pine trees, flowers, berry bushes, etc -each side of the box has a picture of a different kind of plant/bush/tree from Summit county), the Sundance film festival is held every January in Park City (the roll of film with a "star" on it), there's recreational activities from hiking to skiing (skier) but Summit County started out with mining [the ring mounted in silver (not real silver!) and the stone to the side that's lodged in the box and is meant to represent gold mining (but it's really fool's gold!)] She considered some other items but just ran out of room on the box.

Along with the box float Daisy presented an oral report talking about her county and the items chosen for her float. She received high marks for her work!

Say, is that Mica's green precalculus book in the top left corner of the top picture? The knowledge building just never stops!

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Timeline book report

In other news, E recently completed a time line book report using two books on Secretariat: Secretariat by Raymond G Woolfe, Jr. and Secretariat's Meadow: the land, the family, the legend by Kate Chenery Tweedy. She also browsed a few other books and some websites but eventually settled on the preceding two books for her report.




S helped out by drawing the outline of a horse and then E filled in the time line. She received full credit plus some extra credit for her extensive research explained in a well-done report.

If you haven't seen the new Disney movie called Secretariat, we can recommend it (now out on DVD). It's a feel good show along the lines of other feel good sports dramas. The real Penny Chenery has at least one cameo at the end of the movie.