Riley has been in a class called Young Astronaunts. He loves Astronomy and everything about it. The class was assigned a constellation and had to do an oral report and poster board. Riley was assigned "Orion" constellation. The teacher told them to be creative on how to present their constellation on their poster. Riley has been bugging us all weekend to get some shrinky plastic, I thought he just wanted it to play around with it, but I find out he wants it for his presentation of Orion. He made a poster and blew up balloons to the specifications of how big each star was in the constellation. This was all his idea and then he ran with it and was creative. He then poked holes in the board so that they balloons would stay in transport to class the next day. He wrote on the board and the balloons. The balloons were also the same color as the stars. He then drew 15 Orion constellations on the shrinky plastic and shrunk them in the oven and made necklaces for the whole class. Of course, the presentation was awesome (in Riley's words) and he received an A+ for his work. Sometimes he drives us crazy with all the projects and duct tape around, but this one turned out to be worth the hassel. He is becoming that great little creative engineer.
