Science Projects

McKenzie has been very busy with school the past couple weeks! She has two science projects due. One is for class, and the other is for the science fair at the school.

This week she has been studying the solar system and all it's planets. Her classmates had to make a diagram of the solar system. They could just draw it out, or, for extra credit, they could make it 3D.

Even though, early on, she expressed how much she wished her dad was here to help her with the project, I guess mom was going to have to do. So she made a display box, lined it with black paper, and went to work. She did all the planets by herself. Studying their sizes and how many moons, if any they had.

Here is her final product just before she boarded the bus Friday morning to take it to school.
I think she was pretty pleased with it....even though she said Dad would have been able to help her make it out of wood, with round wooded planets that rotated and all that crazy fun! *sigh*
Nick even started giving suggestions on how to make it when we talked to him on the phone before she got started.... he couldn't stand not being here to help her either! They would have really had a great time working on it together. But I think McKenzie did a fabulous job all on her own!!!!! (with a little help from Mom)