School Projects

We spent a great amount of time in February working on 2 different school projects, one each for Jessica and Kylynn.
The first was a Presidential research project for Kylynn. We had to research all about "Millard Fillmore". I was really excited about this since I had no idea who Millard Fillmore was. He turned out to be the 13th President and only became President with the sudden death of Zachary Taylor. Kylynn was not into doing much of the project. I had her read over some of the information and find answers to the questions we were to answer, but when it came to writing out the information she didn't want to help. She did enjoy helping put all the pictures and information on the tri-fold poster. We then had to make President Fillmore's favorite cookie for the Presidential cookie Fair that was held on Feb. 21st. Our cookie were called "Charlotte's",they are like a sugar cookie with dates and nuts in them. They were not to bad but Ky wouldn't even try them.  It was a lot of work and I was glad to have it done.

Once Kylynn project was done we turned our attention to Jessica's science project. We originally wanted to have several people of different ages measure their heart rate at rest, walking, and then running. But it was not working getting enough people so we changed the project 1 week before it was due to, just  measuring Jessica heart rate doing 6 different activities over a 3 day period to see when her heart was beating the fastest and when it was beating the slowest. Jessica had fun learning to count her radial pulse and she found out that her heart beats the fastest while running or jumping rope and is the slowest when she is reading. She had to prepare a 1-2 minute presentation on her project and was so nervous about it. She ended up doing great and got an A on the project.