Of the two who presented today, two made brochures. The other two made Minecraft worlds. Man, did those turn out amazing! One 6th grader had an open pit mine and a deep mine. He had railroad tracks in the mine, beams to hold up the ceiling, a building for the supervisors, a stable for the animals that hauled the carts, blacksmith shop and tools, mining carts... I could keep going. The other 6th grader went beyond even that! He had a mining town with a church, a barge to haul the iron/coal away, a lighthouse complete with lighthouse keeper and supplies, a boarding house, a cook house... very impressive. His world was so big, it couldn't load all at once. He's been working on this since the day I introduced the project, which I believe was back in January. You can definitely tell he's been working hard!
My kids have also been working hard to earn pages towards our I Love to Read Month goal of 30,000 pages/minutes read. So far we're up to 17,000. The challenge ends on Monday. A lot of them say they have more pages they haven't turned in, or they're waiting to turn them in until Monday when they have a whole bunch. Quite a few of my class brought books home this weekend with the intention of reading a lot. I hope we can make our goal!!! I have a bunch of books packed in my car that I plan to read while I'm in Fulda this weekend. Hopefully we can pull off a win!
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