Presentation Day

Today was Presentation Day for the SIP students. They presented thier Independent Study Projects. Each student chose one topic to research and write a 3-5 page paper on. Shayna did hers on Death and Remembrance. The other students did Irish Dance, Candy, Paper, Dance in Culture, and Knights and Armor.

here is Shayna doing her presentation:
They did a group pic at the end. Notice Skyler is in the group pic. Skyler was funny during the presentations. He reminded me of a black church congregant. Every time something was said that he liked, he would repeat it with emphasis. For example, when the candy presentation was being done, every time Seth would say the word "chocolate" Skyler would immediately repeat "chocolate!!"

Group pic with Ms. Welch, the gifted teacher for elementary grades at Valley and Rush (all but Shayna, Anne Marie, and Eric are from Rush, they consolidate them every Thursday because there are not enough gifted kids at each school and it is best for the kids to be around more of thier peers.)

Pictured above Left to Right: Michael Nally, Skyler, Seth Miller, Shayna, Ms. Welch, Anne Marie McCarthy, Abhinov Sundaresan, Eric Rodriguez.

They are holding a prop from seth's candy presentation below. The extra kids are friends of some of the SIP kids from thier regular class. They were each allowed to invite 2 classmates. Shayna had Niti and Danielle.

At the end of each presentation there was a question and answer session. When Eric did his on dance, the boys started asking him to dance. It was towards the end and they were starting to get silly. They kept asking him and he said "NOOO." So someone said about Skyler, does he dance? and Shayna said, sometimes if you ask him. So she said "Skyler dance" and he danced! It was like little Mikey from the 70s cereal commercials....Skyler will do it!