The answer is they are both words that Jakob spelled correctly in the Houston Elementary Spelling Bee, making him the only 3rd Grader to get to round 3. Pretty good for a rookie, eh! We were really pleased with how well he took it all in his stride.
Then last week the 3rd Grade had their famous "Apple Valley School" week where the kids experience a one room school house environment (think Little House on the Prairie) and do fun little things at home to earn extra credit so they can graduate at the end of the week. They are even given new names and arranged into families - Jakob was "Theodore Harris" and his friend Brigham was his twin brother Thadeus!
Jakob got to dress up, take his lunch in a metal pail, wrote a story about a pioneer family settling in Apple Valley, made a quill (with Jarod's help) and wrote with it (apparently much harder than you would expect)!
He also watched episodes of Little House on the Prairie (thanks to TiVo since it airs on TV at 4am!) and built stuff with Lincoln Logs. With Jarod's photoshop magic he created this little Apple Valley scene (worth 100 points, we were told!)
4 comments:
Fun fun! I asm glad Jake enjoyed it!
AWESOME!!!
That is so cute! Hallie starting a braided rug project for extra credit. They seemed to LOVE Apple Valley week!
That is such a fun idea! I love his pail!
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