Today's weather was very appropriate to my emotions, gray and stormy. I don't know why I have such issues with Mother's Day, but it's safe to say that I will be so glad to go to bed Sunday night!!!
In other realms, it's science fair time. UGH. Last year, we were introduced to the "Purdy Science Fair". Oh boy. All the kids are encouraged to do a project, but only the third graders are graded on it. Emma was in kindergarten last year so we made a bird feeder out of a milk jug and she painted it. Molli did something with rice and water and Jonah studied goldfish. Well, as I went to deliver said projects, it quickly became evident that this is not simply a kid's science fair. This was a popularity contest. Some of the kindergarten projects could have been done in High School. And the project boards??? Oh don't even get me started. Clearly, many of these kids did NOT do their own projects. I made Jonah write all of his stuff out(bad handwriting and all),I helped some but he did most of the leg work. Isn't that how it's supposed to be?!?!?!? Not here. Not to mention, that if you do not have your child's project at the school AS SOON AS POSSIBLE, there's NO where to put them! Last year, both Emma and Molli's projects were on the GROUND!
So I enter this year's science fair with trepidation. The girls have picked cool experiments and we have documented and made their project boards. Not fancy, but THEY did the work. Well, with a little help from me. And I will be waiting at the gym door AS SOON as it opens to make sure they get a spot. After all, I have to play part of the game, right??
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i'm totally with you. i always hated dioramas when i was a kid. you know, those little shoebox scenes we used to do. i would always work really hard on mine, with whatever materials i could get my hands on (usually construction paper, markers, and glue), but it was always the really shiny ones that got the A. i was told i wasn't creative enough. but, does it count as creativity if some kid's mom builds his snazzy diorama. i always did my projects myself. then my sister came along. and my mom always did her dioramas, so she was one of those kids with the shiny "creative" ones. now i'll really rat on my mom and tell you that my sister was a girlscout and got her gold award (that's the equivalent of eagle scout for girls). guess who did her gold award project. yup, that would be my mom. she did the whole thing, out of fear that my sister needed to have it on her college applications. all i can do is roll my eyes. just give me some popsicle sticks and glue and give me my C. at least it will be a hard earned C.
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