The Report Went Well! Kaleigh did her report last Wednesday and was great! She did have it memorized but chose to bring her paper up and read part of it....twice unfortunately. But she was a bit nervous and she definitely did better than most of her classmates who all stood there with the paper in front of their faces! She was sitting as you see in the photo and she did pretend to sew while she was talking. She did a good job at emphasizing key points too. Like the fact that she was the eighth child out of 17! Whew! Also the fact that a meeting with George Washington where he asked her to "sew something VERY important, so important it made me famous!" She made it sound very important! Of course the last part (which I wrote) helped her classmates guess who she was supposed to be, but they all knew anyway because the librarian's aid told Kaleigh to remember to bring in her "Betsy Ross book" to renew it. So everyone heard who she was doing!
Smart move lady! Anyway, she is glad that it is done, but still likes the costume a lot so we will hold on to parts of it for a while. The next speech project is school - wide and the students need to memorize either a Bible verse, a poem, or a fable. Kaleigh chose a fable. The boy and the nuts. Interesting....
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Okay - you're going to have to refresh my memory on that fable.
We used "the boy who cried wolf" a LOT thru Trevor's upbringing. He's still overdramatic, but less so now.
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the boy and the nuts is the fable where a little boy wants to get some nuts out of a jar and puts his hand in. He wants a bunch so he grabs as many as his hand can hold. Well, when he tries to take his hand out of the jar, he can't because he has too many nuts in his hand and the opening of the jar is too small. He tries and tries but he can't do it. He starts to cry until his Mother comes in and asks "what's the matter?" He tells her and she says, "well don't be so greedy, take one or two and your hand will come out easily!" The moral is don't be greedy. Kaleigh mainly likes it because it is a boy being dumb, basically. Hehe
Tina - thanks for asking the question.
I knew it had to be something innocent, but ...
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