Kyla's Project Pride

Kyla is always proud of her projects, and she should be! She does them all by herself! It is no secret that Kyla is VERY creative brained. She is always creating something. This month has been an extremely busy one, and with the school year finally winding down, and so much on our already full plate we had procrastinated a dinosaur project Kyla was supposed to do.

Ms. Beyer's 2nd grade class had been researching their chosen dino all week in school then had a week to create a habitat. Kyla chose the ALLOSAURUS They were told that they had to make sure that the habitat included their dinosaur and was true to the region and time period in which that dinosaur was found. I was washing dishes the night before the project was due, and Kyla reminded me, for the hundredth time, that we needed to get started. I told her "after dishes," besides aren't projects always done last minute by parents anyway...

Kyla, being the determined girl she is, went about "doing it herself." I saw her going back and forth from craft room, to my room, to the boys room. I figured she'd have some cute ideas, and some things together and when I got around to it I could just pull it all together, check off the project as done, and move on. About 30 minutes later (no it doesn't take that long for me to do the dishes, but as my kids know once I start cleaning I have a hard time stopping) Kyla waltzes into the living room with a shoe box..."Do you want to see my project", oh yeah the project! I stopped cleaning and came over to "help" her start her project. TOO LATE! PROJECT COMPLETE, and it was AWESOME!

She was very detailed, even down to the three toed footprints, river with a log across it (dinosaurs have to drink), and a skeleton of a Stegosaurus with partial flesh attached and a big hunk of flesh in the Allosaurus' mouth.

As Kyla presented her research and project to the class I was amazed at just how smart my little girl is. I looked around at the other projects and hers was outstanding! I had to giggle, because after each kid presented, the class could ask questions...They always asked, how'd you do this, or how'd you do that, and the kids would just shrug their shoulders and say "I dunno my Mom did it!"--and sometimes a Dad or two came up. BUT when it was Kyla's turn, she gave a detailed description about how she did her project ALL BY HERSELF!

I DID print out the two little info squares for her to glue to the lid! Great job mom! I think it is amazing what our children are capable of doing if we just let them do it! I just can't figure out why this same little GENIUS has a hard time placing her dirty clothes in the hamper--she must get that from her Daddy :)