Reflections 2009

For Reflections this year, the theme was "Beauty is..." and so the girls set off to make stuff.

Today was the award ceremony.

This is Lily waiting for the assembly to start. (love the boy in the far left??LOL)

Here is Rebekah also waiting for the assembly to start. She is wearing her Indian feathers for today since the 5th graders did Colonial Day and could dress up if they wanted.

Here are my two winners!! In the 3D Art category in the Intermediate Division (3rd-5th grades) Rebekah won honorable mention and Lily won 1st place.
(See the cute, little 1st grader holding the "applause" sign? Well the poor dear had to pee and was too shy to say anything and within like 3 minutes of me taking this picture, the poor thing peed her pants, in front of the whole school.)

Here is Lily with her project. Her project is titled, "Beauty is recycling." I saw this project on Family Fun.com and knew she would LOVE doing it. She had a blast putting it together. I did have to help her with the glue gun though. Now her project goes on to District. I don't know if you can see it, but the little person has a halo. :-)

Here is Rebekah and her awesome rag quilt. Her project is titled, "Beauty is creating comfort." When she set to work on this blanket, she had her own pattern in mind. I will have to take another picture of it to show you. It is 6 feet tall and almost 4 feet wide. She was excited to win an honorable mention and now gets to sleep with it. She can't wait for me to wash it so the fringes will fray more.


I am so proud of my girls desire to enter into Reflections every year. Their confidence skyrockets when they get to create. Good thing they create all year round.

Science Fair

It was the kids' Science Fair at their school yesterday.

Here is Lily with half of the liquids for her project of seeing which liquid evaporates the quickest.


Lily pouring stuff into kitchen shot glasses to make it easier to pour out exactly 6 teaspoons of each liquid.


Here are all the liquids on day 9.


Lily at the school next to her science fair board.
Her hypothesis was that the cooking oil would evaporate the fastest because, "It gets all bubbly when you cook it." :-) And as it turned out, the oil didn't evaporate at any recognizable levels. And it was cute how excited she got each day when she checked them each day. She thought it was amazing that the rubbing alcohol was evaporating so quickly. By day 9 of the 10 day experiment, the alcohol was all gone.


Here is Justin putting some apple chunks into container number 1. His project was to see what things are biodegradable.

Justin adding more dirt on top of an item.


To simulate a landfill type of environment, Justin added one cup of water to each container.


Here is Justin on day 10 after opening each container and seeing what



Here is Justin and his science board at the science fair. The 6 different items were: apple chunks, Styrofoam, piece of bread, plastic bag, paper, dryer sheet. His hypothesis was that the apple would biodegrade quicker than the others because, "Apples are juicy, then after a while, it isn't juicy anymore." LOL I love his reasoning.... Anyhow, when he opened the containers on day 10, the apple chunks smelled gross and fermented, but weren't broken down much. However it had brown stuff on the flesh of the apple. The bread smelled gross and was only slightly moldy. The paper was yellow and was breaking down rather quickly. Everything else was the same.

Here is Rebekah doing her last minute science fair project.


Rebekah rolling dice.

Rebekah at the science fair with her board. Originally, she had a longer project in process, but she still needed more time for the results to take place, so she did one on mathematical statistics. So she rolled one die at a time and recorded what she rolled to see if it was actually going to be random or if there were any patterns when rolling a single die. Her hypothesis was that the 4 would be rolled the most and the 6 the least. Shockingly enough, she guess right! Who would have thought that random wasn't so random? :-)