Dall Sheep

Dominick's class has been studying artic animals for the past couple of weeks. As part of learning about arctic animals, each child in his class drew a name (of an arctic animal) out of hat to do a report on. Dominick's animal is the "Dall Sheep". His teacher gave him a blank 11 x 14 posterboard that we needed to fill with pictures and facts about Dall Sheep, and then Dominick would have to use the posterboard to do a presentation to the rest of his class. I decided to take Dominick to the library to get started on the project. Jeff questioned this idea, and thought that using the internet (at home) was a much better approach. "But, it will be fun, and we'll find everything we need to finish the project. And I can teach him how to use the library for research". Wrong. After chasing Dominick and Kirsten around the libary for an hour, trying to keep them off of the computers, sitting (sort-of) through story-time, reminding them to talk quietly about 371 times, we left with ONE book with ONE measley picture of a Dall Sheep in it......AND then we went home and looked up everything we needed to know on the internet. I printed out a bunch of pictures and a map for him, typed up a fact-list, and cut out some letters on the Cricut. I handed him a glue stick and the pile of stuff we had, and after attempting to glue the first thing onto the poster, he decided he didn't like how sticky the glue stick made his fingers, so he quickly delegated the glueing to me, while he directed where to put everything. We didn't get it completely finished until Sunday, Jan 16, which was the day before his presentation. We had been practicing all of the information with him for a couple of weeks, though. We had him practice giving the presentation (with his posterboard) to us thoughout the entire day. At some point, he suggested that Jeff and I practice doing the presentation, too. So, Jeff and I each took a turn, and even Kirsten. She doesn't want to be left out of anything. She mainly just held the posted and said "Dawwwwwl Sheep" a few times, but it was very cute that she wanted to take a turn, too. On the big day, he did amazing. He was confident and excited, and he nailed it. Jeff and I both went to his classroom to watch him. We were so proud of him! I took the below video....he was so excited to get started that I missed him saying, "hi, my name is Dominick.....". The volume is REALLY quiet on this for some reason (I think because I did it on my regular camera vs. the video camera). So, make sure your volume is turned all the way up on your computer :)