Discovery Fair

Last night, the kids' elementary school hosted a Discovery Fair.

Every grade was assigned some kind of big project and last night was a chance

for parents to walk around and see all of the hard work by the students.

In Kindergarten, they created a 100 day display. They had to find a way to display 100 items

of their choice. (If you have children in public school, you have done this. Multiple times.)

Ben wanted to put 100 Skittles in a cool bottle we had. I love how carefully he placed them.

Matt had a big Utah history project. He worked really hard on it and especially took a lot of time 

creating his board. (I don't know where he got the personality that caused him to make every single 

paper he put on his board perfectly straight.) He and one other student in the class chose someone 

from Utah history that was a bit out of the box. That sure is Matt. As is his colorful board. I love that
about him. Only the kids that entered a special history contest were in the running for their boards

to be chosen to go to district. You had to sign up at the beginning of the year. We were new and

didn't know about it. Matt wasn't especially devastated. He loves just doing things to do them.

And Annie girl was chosen, one of four in her entire grade and the only one in her class, to take
her science project to district. Honestly, how I felt when we walked into the room that night and
saw she was the one with the blue ribbon...I was so proud of her and so grateful. They didn't
know until that evening who had won, because they had just presented their projects to the
judges during school that day. And while I know Annie is amazing and capable of a lot, I also
 knew she had chosen a project that was somewhat common (it had to be done during the end
of last year and that was crazyville time for us, so we kept it simple for everyone's sanity) and
I just didn't know how that would factor into things. But between her board that she spent a
great deal of time on and her presentation which she practiced and did with confidence, it looked
to definitely be enough. It was such a happy moment for all of us. Boy were we excited for Annie!

And one more picture with our girl and her blue ribbon.