Science Fair

We tackled Science Fair this month!  

I have painful memories of doing science fair once in Middle School...memories of the stress of not knowing what to do, waiting to late to start, staying up way late finishing it up, and crying before all was said and done . The kids both brought home papers with Science Fair details one afternoon saying that it was "optional".  Whew!  Then Lawson said well for me it actually isn't....my teacher is taking a grade.  She will give us time to work on it in class if we can't do it at home.  Great!  Then Hudson said and my teacher said I can do it if I want to and I want to because I want to learn as much as I can!  Wonderful!  Two science fair projects for the Buie Household it is!  Fabulous!

 

 

The kids both did a great job!  These projects didn't disappoint!  They were a LOT of work! When searching through ideas, they both gravitated towards project with worms....I think just because they wanted to go to Walmart and buy worms! Lawson did a project to determine what type of soil worms prefer to live in.  Hudson tested how worms in soil effect plant growth.  The testing lasted for about 10 days for each of these projects and then it took us an entire weekend to compile the data and put the boards together! Towards the end....Hudson was questioning why he had signed up for this assignment! They were finally done and the kids were proud to take them to Science Fair.  Hudson won 1st place in 1st grade at their school's science fair.  So, off to Regional Science Fair we went! 

 

We drove to Hot Springs and set up his project.  Then the kids remain in the room with the projects and get interviewed by the judges.  Then you wait for the outcome! We did have fun walking around looking at all the projects.  Some were very interesting!

Waiting for the announcement!

He won 3rd place in Regional Science fair for 1st grade!  Way to go Hudson!

Lawson sacrificed and skipped school to support her brother!