Monday, June 8, 2009

Introducing Theodore

Addison's class was taken over by famous people a couple weeks ago.  Mostly dead ones, but it was still exciting.  The third graders did biography reports and Addison chose Theodore Roosevelt.  He really enjoyed learning about him.  I've never seen him read a book with  the enthusiasm or sustained interested that he had reading the biography about Teddy.  (That's what Addison calls him.  They're pretty much best friends.)

After much work trying to figure out how to make a monocle, we ended up with this... which worked great, until we realized Theodore Roosevelt actually wore pince-nez.  

Teddy and Louis Braille.  

The parents interviewed each historical figure.  Many people were interested to learn from President Roosevelt that the Teddy Bear was given its name to honor him.  

There were 3 Sacajaweas, 2 girls and 1 boy.   

Teddy answering a very serious question.  

5 comments:

Veronica, Collin and Jed said...

I love the pictures! Miss you Miss Stephanie! We need to get together one of these days!

Megan said...

Wow! What a great project. Addison makes a perfect Teddy!

Amanda said...

He is the cutest boy ever.

Kaelee said...

He's so cute. I love the monacle. Wow, you guys have done a lot of camping lately!

Sherry said...

Oh.my.gosh. He is darling!