Blinding me with science

I gotta say...when the handout came to me from school saying my 5 year old would be participating in the science fair...I was like What!?!

How the heck?

Here's the deal. I have TWO design degrees. I can rock. a presentation. BUT, I am a firm believer in the child doing their own work. The dilemma...I can ROCK. a presentation.

Miss Peach chose to do "What Dissolves in Water" as her project. My job was to sit. on. my. hands. and let her do it.

There was a hypothesis.
There was measuring.
There was list making.
There was picture taking.
There was a conclusion.

Then...it was time to make the board. You have to know how badly I wanted to scan everything she had written, import it into Photoshop, rock the presentation, and then take it to Kinko's to have it printed on foam core board. (Can I say to you right now, if I had my way, I'd mount everything on foam core board...money, bills, Birthday cards...I love me some foam core board.)

I resisted...sorta:/

I bought the foam core board ('cause I love it) scanned everything Miss Peach had done, printed it back out on pimped out paper along with the pictures, then glue sticked it onto the foam core.

What? It's a compromise...right?

After school today, a row of Moms were watching the kiddos play, and b*tching about how late they'd been up...working on their kids science fair project.

Not me...I was super duper proud of how much I stayed out of it;)

6 comments

  1. That.Is.Awesome. Way to rock staying out of it. ;)

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  2. Good for you, staying out of it! :-)

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  3. So where's the photo of Miss Peach presenting her project and blue ribbon?

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  4. Staying out of it is the right thing for sure! I know I'll have to sit on my hands when our science fair time comes, but I definitely want my kids to take ownership of their own work and projects. Does it drive you nuts knowing that "your" presentation would have shamed those of the other moms?!

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  5. Good for you! Teacher REALLY prefer when kids do the work! I "helped" my 5th grader with the decorations on his project, cutting, gluing, centering, but I let him do the real work, and didn't put in my 2cents... much. So hard to stand by and let them run the show!

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  6. I've spent SEVEN hours today working on a display of photos for my son's Star of the Week display on poster board. I went completely OCD on it with labels, special glues, premade letters, etc. You would be soo proud.

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