Finished Project

Finishing touches were made this evening -- Christopher touched up with glue to make sure all the labels and pictures were adhered to the once very white, but now very well done display board.

We logged about five hours this weekend and an hour tonight putting it together. Yes, I helped. Christopher had drawn out his plan, found his sources and came up with the labels. We both cut out the pictures -- I have some pretty cool Martha tools to help with that precision. He glued.

The details, as we called them, were typed up on the computer. I helped type, but he came up with the words. He had resources (web site print-outs and two books) scattered all over the floor by the computer.

It looks great. Being limited to 500 words was tough -- he ended up with only 61 for the Civil War. Fortunately, Christopher focused on Lee and who he was as a general so he didn't have to go into detail about the war.

He is taking it to school tomorrow (two days ahead of the due date) to share with his teacher and get any tips to make it better. So he may have some more work to do over the next two nights, but I cannot imagine she will ask him to do more. He has tutoring in the morning with his Social Studies teacher so he can finish up his bibliography.

He wants to win now so he can advance to the state competition. He said, "We get to do a six-foot board for that."

Yippee.