12 April 2011

Desert Diorama

A couple of kids in Anya's class were given special homework this week - to create a desert diorama and write a 7 sentence paragraph about something they like about the desert. They will be presenting their dioramas during science time on Friday.

Anya was VERY excited about her homework. She had ideas of how she wanted to do it and it was so fun to watch her creativity. She is such a hard worker and, even though she had the whole week to do it, she ended up finishing it in two nights. She probably would've finished it on Monday but I had to go to the store to get some desert animals! :)

She did the whole thing herself with the exception of the hot glue gun but she was VERY specific about where I was to put the hot glue! I enjoyed watching Anya work and we are SO proud of our little girl (who probably isn't so little anymore, but don't tell us that!!!!!)!


Enjoy the pics! Painting the sides


More painting Notice the tongue sticking out... Nathan does the same thing! hahaha

Mom, stop taking pictures so I can paint!


And yes, more painting!



Making prickly pear cacti (her fave) out

of green playdough and toothpicks


Day 1 work complete



Finished diorama


She wanted to build a rock cave for the snake

to come out of.


Prickly Pear Cactus and a couple of lizards



Anya's saguaro with an owl and eggs. The spiders

are climbing down to steal the eggs.


It just wouldn't be Anya's if there wasn't something

girly.... She wanted to glue gems on the front! :)

4 comments:

Millers! said...

She did an awesome job! Love it, so cute.. gems and all:)

The McBride Family said...

HEEHEE gems of course!!! :) Ummm but I also want to read her paragraph?? Pretty please. Tell her I said GREAT job!!!!!! Ummm and I just showed Lex and she said, "where's the camel??" HAHAHAHA Followed by can I make one too? She loves her friend.

Brad and Erica said...

Wow, I hope Anya is so excited about her homework for her entire school career! Knowing Anya, I think she will be. I think she did better on that diorama than I would have done. What a smart, creative girl. (And I love that Lex wanted to know where the camel was!)

The Grows said...

Wow great work Anya!!!!1