Among the many amazing things that happen at Isaiah's school, and more specifically in his class, are project nights. Every six weeks or so the kids (and their amazing teachers) host a unit celebration that showcases the work they've done during each unit. This unit's theme was fairy tales and government. They explored a million and one different fairy tales in a million and one creative ways. They had a visit from Donna Frye in their classroom, they held their own class name election, and they learned about so many different things that were all some way or another tied into the theme of fairy tales and government.
Isaiah decided to do his project on comparing the three houses of the three little pigs. He wrote how-to books about building each house and he actually built a diorama of each house, set them up, and turned on a fan to simulate the big bad wolf's breath! He was so very proud of his work, and I have to say I was thoroughly impressed with how far he has come since the first project time last year. He also played the narrator in one of the student-written plays of the night, which for Isaiah is huge since reading in itself is something he is just starting to love and reading that much to a whole audience of people was definitely something new for him. He was amazing though and I couldn't have been more proud!!
All About My Project: I did this project because I thought a project like this would be interesting because you are comparing houses! I like the straw houses because it's fun to make. I like the stick house because it is hard. I like the brick house because it is safe.
How To Build a House of Straw: First go on a trale and loc around and try to see som straw. and if you see som straw then tack it. So build the house strg or the wolf wel bloe it down.
How To Build a House of Sticks: Go on a tral and pick up sum twigs and mac a house but you have to mac it strog so the wolf wont blow it down. Huf puf.
How To Build a House of Bricks: go to a town and asc for some bricks. asck for some bricks then ask for some morter. Yous the morter to past the bricks and past them together. When you put the bricks together you put them like this. Mack a house out of bricks.
Then, turn on the fan!! I think the only disapointment of the night was that none of the houses actually blew down. The straw house blew off the table, which I think was satisfying enough. But, apparently the pigs didn't use a hot glue gun or, as we discovered, they wouldn't have had so many problems with the big bad wolf!
