The Maine Project and Mad Science

Will's big Maine project is finally done. It consisted of this big tri-panel board, an "All About Maine" booklet, notes on two index cards and a presentation! Everything is done except for the oral report, which he'll do this week. And yes, Will is only in Kindergarten. Crazy, right? I am pretty sure I didn't do this kind of project until middle school.

This project took us two weeks to do and required lots of Internet research (thank you, State of Maine, for having an awesome kids' page!) and help from Mommy. Will read all the information online and together we figured out what to write for the board, and then I typed it up for him. Fortunately, we already had a lot of pictures of Maine from our recent trips (Will's been three times!), so we printed out our favorites and, with help from Grampa, cut them out and pasted them to his board.

Grampa helped a fair bit with this board. He brought a AAA map of Maine to use as the background, cut out the MAINE letters by hand and helped Will lay everything out on the board.

Needless to say, we are all very thankful that this project if finished! It was quite a lot of work for everyone.

After finishing the tri-panel board on Saturday, Will and I went to a super fun birthday party at Mad Science.Will wasn't too sure about the science lab at first, but once the experiments got started, he was in seventh heaven! FIRE...
Rainbow glasses...
And best of all, they made slime!
Stirring his green slime.
My big boy had a blast. Science experiments + pizza + cake + friends? What more could a boy ask for?