On Friday, the kids did their history presentaTIONs for our history group where we get together with four other families who are all studying the same time period and each of the kids does a presentaTION on a topic of their choice. We are studying American History right now and this session wrapped up our study of the RevoluTION.
Clarissa chose to do her presentaTION on the women's clothing styles in the 18th century, specifically accessories. Here she is all dressed up. Her ensemble includes hat, powdered face, smallpox patch, necklace, collar, nosegay (the flowers), gloves, apron, handbag, hankercheif, and fan. She decorated the hankercheif and apron herself, but I think her favorite part of the whole outfit were the ringlets in her hair (thank you Heather).
Here she is explaining each piece to her costume. She did a great job remembering everything!
Benjamin Franklin was the subject of Jared's presentaTION. This is a pencil sketch that he drew of his favorite Founding Father.
The rest of his project was a timeline that he researched on the computer and then wrote out. But, he didn't stop there. Jared decided that since Benjamin Franklin was always trying to invent new things, that he would make an invenTION to hold his timeline, complete with pointer. He worked on it that morning and I never saw it until the presentaTION, I was quite impressed. By the way, have you ever noticed how many words end in TION? TaxaTION, representaTION, formaTION, naTION...Well, Jared always wrote 'shun' at the end of these words until we began studying the RevoluTION, and I don't think that he will ever forget how to spell them again. It's become an inside joke that every time Jared or I read a word that ends in TION we annunciate the end. Yeah, we're that nerdy!
Clarissa chose to do her presentaTION on the women's clothing styles in the 18th century, specifically accessories. Here she is all dressed up. Her ensemble includes hat, powdered face, smallpox patch, necklace, collar, nosegay (the flowers), gloves, apron, handbag, hankercheif, and fan. She decorated the hankercheif and apron herself, but I think her favorite part of the whole outfit were the ringlets in her hair (thank you Heather).
Here she is explaining each piece to her costume. She did a great job remembering everything!
Benjamin Franklin was the subject of Jared's presentaTION. This is a pencil sketch that he drew of his favorite Founding Father.
The rest of his project was a timeline that he researched on the computer and then wrote out. But, he didn't stop there. Jared decided that since Benjamin Franklin was always trying to invent new things, that he would make an invenTION to hold his timeline, complete with pointer. He worked on it that morning and I never saw it until the presentaTION, I was quite impressed. By the way, have you ever noticed how many words end in TION? TaxaTION, representaTION, formaTION, naTION...Well, Jared always wrote 'shun' at the end of these words until we began studying the RevoluTION, and I don't think that he will ever forget how to spell them again. It's become an inside joke that every time Jared or I read a word that ends in TION we annunciate the end. Yeah, we're that nerdy! 
4 comments:
No problem I'm just glad we got it all done;)
It looks awesome! Your kids are very creative. I'm impressed :)
Great presenaTIONS from the Mattson Clan. Clarissa looks adorable and Jared is quite the Benjamin Franklin himself.
CongratulaTIONs...the presentaTIONs very well done and great to watch!
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