Fun projects you did in elementary school
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In first grade we made our own monsters out of construction paper. I made one with a light blue body, green head, and I can't remember what color the eyes, mouth, arms and legs wer, lol. It also had a big green sword. We hung them in the hallway right outside our classroom. And every time one of the other teachers would walk by, and stop to look at the monsters.
And our teacher would always say "We call it Monster Alley." In 2nd Grade, we went through this big theme of studying dinosaurs. We got to make dinosaurs out of pipe cleaners. I made a Stegosaurus. That's my favorite dinosaur. One of my classmates made a T-Rex. And it wasn't any old T-Rex. He told us it was a T-Rex eating a man. And he showed us a small black pipe cleaner, and said "Here are the guy's legs sticking out." The best part was the same day we made the dinosaurs, we got an extra recess. We also made a small dinosaur quilt that had a volcano with lava flowing out, and dinosaurs that were cut out of fabric and sewn on. It wasn't a full size quilt, it was really just a big fabric square the size of a kids' drawing board. In other words, it was just a big dinosaur picture made out of fabric. At first I was so made because I couldn't make the Stegosaurus, because the classmate that made the T-Rex eating a man was called, and chose to do the Stegosaurus. But I got over it when I asked if I could do a prehistoric turtle, and was told I could. One of THE best projects we ever did in elementary school was when we were still in 2nd Grade, and we had to draw a picture of a monster we made up and write about what our monster does. Mine was a purple cat that only had one eye, and was the normal size of an adult. I can't remember it's name, but I do remember that it was a girl cat. She could walk on two legs. Basically what she would do is go over to some kid's house at night while the kid's asleep. Then she would somehow sneak into the kid's room and kill the kid by biting him or her. As she bites the kid, this green goo oozes from the teeth. What does the green goo do, you ask? Well, after the cat leaves the house, the child dies. Then three days later, the goo makes the child come back from the grave as another one-eyed purple killer monster cat, and joins up with the other cat that turned him or her into one. And they both go out and do the same thing to other kids to build an army. How do you kill these cats you ask? Well, basically, you kill the cat in any normal way you would any other living thing. But it's not as easy as you think. The thing is, despite that the fur's purple, the cat is still really, really, really hard to see at night. The trick is to lure the cat to you while you're in a place where there's enough lighting for you to see. What are some fun projects you did in elementary school?Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No - 2 years 2 months ago
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raph89```those are some really cool memories. The one project that I can remember in elem. sch. was making a volcano with baking-soda lava. My volcano was black with red painted around the top. At least, this is how I think I remember it. I also remember doing a report on dinosaurs. I liked the T-rex (he was scary) and the Brontasaurus (sp). Thanks for posting this subject! Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No - 2 years 2 months ago
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Cleo777 wrote:raph89```those are some really cool memories. The one project that I can remember in elem. sch. was making a volcano with baking-soda lava. My volcano was black with red painted around the top. At least, this is how I think I remember it. I also remember doing a report on dinosaurs. I liked the T-rex (he was scary) and the Brontasaurus (sp). Thanks for posting this subject!
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In 5th grade we read Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of Nimh. After we finished, we made little mice out of cloth and stuff, and everyone got to take theirs home. We all named them and everything. I remember having a hard time with it, and the teacher helped me. To this day I still have that mouse. I keep anything and everything that reminds me of my childhood. ROSEBUD....
yes, rosebud frozen peas. Full of country goodness and GREEN PEANESS. wait that's terrible, I QUIT!
oh what luck, there's a french fry stuck in my beard.
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We made animal habitats out of shoe boxes. My mom did most of mine. It was a Dolphin that hung by a string. Not sure what happened to it. It was made out of that Crayola modeling clay so it probably fell apart. Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No 
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Our 2nd grade teacher did all her lessons around projects. I mean, our education here is based on projects, but she took it to the next level. We had Hawaii Day, Dinosaur Day, Nutcracker Day where we actually acted out the whole thing to music (I got to play the girl!), Museum Day (we served crackers and ginger ale and hung artwork around the room.) Such a fun class. Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No - 2 years 2 months ago
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I don't remember very many but in the third grade we made igloos out of mini marshmallows which we glued onto those big margarine containers or a big whipped cream container if we wanted to. We also did dioramas a lot when I was in grade three we did one for our space unit. I remember in the fifth grade we had to make up sentences with those messages on the candy hearts. It didn't go very well though I think other students saw our display and were eating the candies. They didn't eat mine though I coated mine entirely in white glue on both the front and the back of the hearts. In grade six our teacher gave us really neat art projects to do one of them was to draw these stairs and color them in three different colors. I only remember the paper had lots of little dots on it. Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No 
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This is a good topic, as I am helping my son work on a coconut project at the moment. As a family for Reading Across America week we have to read an age appropriate book with him and help him decorate a coconut with a scene from the book LOL
When I was in school I remember doing the sugar cube igloo where you used some sort of icing type thing as glue I believe. Then we did the dioramas all the time with the shoe boxes. I remember using clay and making a fox habitat or something. We made paper mache' frogs, our own little books, kachina dolls (native american dolls we made out of clay), clay ornaments, felt ornaments, etc.
Then in fifth grade on, every year we had what was called "Ed Fair". (Educational Fair) We had to pick a topic and do a report and presentation on that topic. I did Manatees and had a display board with photos and pictures I drew as well as plastic and plush Manatees i'd collected. Also I brought in a Manatee video and played it on the school's VCR.
Another year I did Lucille Ball. I remember being annoyed because in addition to my Lucy Doll collection and books and photographs and other things I brought in my favorite Lucy video. I was trying to show it to the judges and someone else was doing Disney Cartoons as a report and wanted to borrow the tv I was using to play "hakuna Matata" over and over again.
The last year I did Unexplained Phenomena. I did a really good job on the report and the displays but I was never very good at expression myself to the judges. I always got nervous and botched the questions. LOL! I remember one of the judges asking me "do you think that in researching this project you've learned anything important that can help aid you in the future?" and instead of thinking for a minute and coming up with a decent answer, or making something UP, I flat out nervously said "not really". oy.
Cool projects pretty much stopped after Jr High. Only other thing we had to do as far as projects go was in Senior Enlish we had to do a shrine of ourselves in order to pass the class. We all brought in photos from childhood and talked briefly about our lives up until that point. It was kind of akward but we had to do it.
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Boyce Middle School in Pittsburgh, PA where I attended the 6th grade (78'-79'), had the most unique curriculum of any public school I've ever seen. Having no children myself I'm ignorant of current academic particulars so it may not seem that impressive by today's standards. I don't know.
The school year was divided into 5 'quinmesters' & students were grouped together into 'tribes' for the core subjects according to academic assessment test scores. This facilitated the mixing up of the weekly schedule for different tribes & allowed more creative structuring of the curriculum while still providing the necessary class-time for the requisite math, science, language arts & social studies for all tribes.
In the 2nd 'quin', 3 days each week, my tribe spent the 1st 4 full periods doing a project called 'The Factory System' which could be summed up nicely as 'Capitalism 101' + practical application. The 1st 2 or 3 weeks we studied economics & business principles, corporate structure & stock trading, manufacturing principles & marketing techniques then broke up into 4 or 5 member groups/small businesses & spent the remainder of the term developing a product we could manufacture, issuing shares & selling stock to our families, friends & neighbors, manufacturing & marketing our products then selling them from 'storefront' tables set up flanking the entrance to the cafeteria.
Some turned out to be born capitalists whose stockholders actually got returns on their investments, albeit extremely modest ones. Then there were investors like my family, friends & neighbors that took a real bath & lost it all. Of course our grades were based almost entirely on our written examinations of the subjects studied & not how we applied the knowledge practically. Win or lose it was a terrific learning experience & one hell of a lot of fun. Coolest school project I ever did bar none.Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No 
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raph89 wrote:In first grade we made our own monsters out of construction paper. I made one with a light blue body, green head, and I can't remember what color the eyes, mouth, arms and legs wer, lol. It also had a big green sword. We hung them in the hallway right outside our classroom. And every time one of the other teachers would walk by, and stop to look at the monsters.
And our teacher would always say "We call it Monster Alley." In 2nd Grade, we went through this big theme of studying dinosaurs. We got to make dinosaurs out of pipe cleaners. I made a Stegosaurus. That's my favorite dinosaur. One of my classmates made a T-Rex. And it wasn't any old T-Rex. He told us it was a T-Rex eating a man. And he showed us a small black pipe cleaner, and said "Here are the guy's legs sticking out." The best part was the same day we made the dinosaurs, we got an extra recess. We also made a small dinosaur quilt that had a volcano with lava flowing out, and dinosaurs that were cut out of fabric and sewn on. It wasn't a full size quilt, it was really just a big fabric square the size of a kids' drawing board. In other words, it was just a big dinosaur picture made out of fabric. At first I was so made because I couldn't make the Stegosaurus, because the classmate that made the T-Rex eating a man was called, and chose to do the Stegosaurus. But I got over it when I asked if I could do a prehistoric turtle, and was told I could. One of THE best projects we ever did in elementary school was when we were still in 2nd Grade, and we had to draw a picture of a monster we made up and write about what our monster does. Mine was a purple cat that only had one eye, and was the normal size of an adult. I can't remember it's name, but I do remember that it was a girl cat. She could walk on two legs. Basically what she would do is go over to some kid's house at night while the kid's asleep. Then she would somehow sneak into the kid's room and kill the kid by biting him or her. As she bites the kid, this green goo oozes from the teeth. What does the green goo do, you ask? Well, after the cat leaves the house, the child dies. Then three days later, the goo makes the child come back from the grave as another one-eyed purple killer monster cat, and joins up with the other cat that turned him or her into one. And they both go out and do the same thing to other kids to build an army. How do you kill these cats you ask? Well, basically, you kill the cat in any normal way you would any other living thing. But it's not as easy as you think. The thing is, despite that the fur's purple, the cat is still really, really, really hard to see at night. The trick is to lure the cat to you while you're in a place where there's enough lighting for you to see. What are some fun projects you did in elementary school?
In grade 4 for my teacher mr brennan, we had to build our own cover bridges. My dad helped me make one out of wood and it looked just like a real cover bridge I was all proud of it and how my dad made it for me. Then we had them all in the autitorium and I said something to my friend while he was talking and he must have been in a bad mood because he did a running kick to it and it flew all the way across the autitorium and smashed in to like 5 peices against the wall. I was pretty bummed, its funny now though.Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No 
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I was always that kid in the class who made the "weird looking" or "wrong" project. I remember really liking a duck hat I made in kindergarten. I drew a bow on it to make it look like Webby from Ducktales, and then all the other girls copied me. And the time in 1st grade I made a Gadget Hackwrench collage. Are you sure you want to delete this post? Yes | No 
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pikachulover wrote:I was always that kid in the class who made the "weird looking" or "wrong" project. I remember really liking a duck hat I made in kindergarten. I drew a bow on it to make it look like Webby from Ducktales, and then all the other girls copied me. And the time in 1st grade I made a Gadget Hackwrench collage.
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