Belle's Wax Museum

For the last two months Belle has been reading and working on her report on Laura Ingalls Wilder. The final part of the report happened today. The children dressed up as the person the read about. Belle's friend Maddy had a pioneer dress that we could borrow. And Grandma Sansevero had a bonnet she lent to us. I showed up at the school after lunch and helped Belle into her costume.



Then we pushed a desk and a chair into the gym and set up her props. She had made a sign to go along with her report and she propped it in front of the desk. She had a sitting pose, pretending to write, and a standing pose, stirring a bowl with a wooden spoon. Once all the children had been primped by the moms, we were asked to leave the room while the wax figures got into the positions. Then the museum was opened. The cute little 3rd graders sat or stood in those positions for 20 minutes and then would take a break.

Walking through the aisle I passed by so many famous people:



Helen Keller, Samuel Morse, Betsy Ross, Muhammad Ali, Florence Nightengale, Vincent Van Gogh, Princess Diana, William Shakespeare, Muhatma Ghandi, Cleopatra, George Washington. Then there was Judy Blume, Lance Armstrong, Troy Aikman, Amelia Earhart, Orville and Wilbur Wright, Pocahontas, Annie Oakley, and Abraham Lincoln.

The children peformed in the wax museum for 2 hours. Belle said that other grades walked through and looked at them. She was excited when one grade got to her and became so excited because they are currently reading a book by Laura Ingalls Wilder.

All You Need is Friends

We are back to full spend with the school work this week. Steve has been busy assisting Zack with a Science experiment for the Science fair. Zack is trying to find out how much better antibacterial soap is that regular soap for cleaning your hands. They have made petri dishes to for growing the bacteria. I think they have had a good time working together.

Belle so far is doing pretty well in school. Everything seems to come easily to her, it is just a matter of her taking her time and really applying herself. She has been kept busy this week writing a book report for the Wax Museum. She reads a biography about someone, she chose Laura Ingalls Wilder, writes a report and and then dresses up as her character and all the parents come and walk around and look at all the characters. It is really cute.

After spending the week help Zack on his science fair project and Belle with her book report on Laura Ingalls Wilder, we needed a night out. The Duve's invited us to go to a Grizzlies (hockey) game. We accepted the invitation. I had never been to a hockey game and never had any interest in watching hockey. We went out to dinner with them and headed over to the E Center for the game. I have to admit it was fun. Steve explained to me all he knows about hockey, which helped.



Last night we got together with our neighbors the Hortons and played Settlers of Catan. I have to admit, I went over there a little bit cocky. I had won 2 games against Steve during the day and thought my luck would follow me over to their house. So we played 3 games and Ken won the 1st two and Wendy the last one. Obviously I had left my luck at home. Even though we did not win, we still had a great time. I walked away from this weekend just extremely grateful for the friends we have in our life. After a week of projects, homework, clothes lying on bedroom floors; it is nice to have a low key evening with some friends and unwind.