Thursday, March 17, 2011
March Maxness
¶ Thursday, March 17, 2011 
 | After two snow-day cancellations, the PTO gave up trying to have the science fair, but we didn't. After some communication with the school, and Max's teacher in particular, she decided to stage a 3rd grade science fair, invited the other teachers in the grade to have kids bring in their undisplayed projects, and view the results. Well, only Max and his friend Logan actually did, but they had a blast, showing all three of the 3rd grade groups, one after the other, their science chops. Below is Logan's demonstration of breaking down water to gas with electricity flowing through pencil graphite: you can see the bubbles! Max's project, of course, can be found here. |
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 | The science fair was a nice release after a tense week: State Reading Assessment tests. The tests themselves were about an hour's work, spread over three days, but they've spent the last few weeks getting the kids so worked up about them that it's a wonder any of them wanted to go to school. Last week they did all kinds of 'dress funny to show your spirit' stuff: this was "Dress Up Day." |
 | Yesterday Max was messing around while we were in the kitchen, and I heard him and Woody joking about getting an updated rocking horse picture.... so I took one. Not the same without the sailor suit, though! |
 | Our other project this week was the Alligator Cake! We were asked to bring something good for the Purim Oneg, and Max has wanted to make this "Princess and the Frog" cookbook cake since we got the book, so we did. Spearmint-leaf toes and scales, M&Ms, too. Yogurt Pretzels for teeth, eyes. white bundt cake and white icing with a few score drops of food color and a teaspoon of peppermint extract. As you can see below, it's not quite the same as the book, but not bad for an historian..... |
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I presume they didn't do "awards" for the Science Fair, but did the teacher(s) give any comments at all? (I was looking forward to hearing what was said about Max's project.)
Nice cake. Heh.
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Nice cake. Heh.
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