County Visual Presentations 2014

Today was county visual presentations!!! Everybody did extremely well, and we all got invited to States in two weeks!! States are on March 29 at the same place as counties. (John Glenn Middle School, 97 McMahon Rd, Bedford MA) Arrive between 9:15 to 9:45 to register, find your room and get settled. Class competitions start at 10:00 AM. (This is the information that I copied off the sheet that everybody got with their ribbon.) Thanks everybody for a fun, and tiring, day!

VPs!!!!

Congratulations to everybody who did there visual presentations today! Everybody did really well, and we all got into the Big E! Hopefully everybody will make it to counties on Saturday the 15th at 9:00.

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Visual Presentations!

Visual Presentations are coming up fast!! Our first presentation of them will be on Tuesday, February 25. If we all get the okay there, we will move on to counties which is on Saturday, March 15. Two weeks after that, March 29, are states. Here are some links that will help you.

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General Information

Judging Criteria

Topic List

Jackson Homestead Meeting

Today we visited the Jackson Homestead. Sara Goldberg, the curator of manuscripts and photographs, helped us find information and resources for our Civil War Project. She also taught us what primary and secondary resources are. We used some VERY old books, documents and read some sad letters written by the soldiers. We learned a lot!!

Pictures at the Jackson Homestead

Winter Forum 2014

We went to Tewksbury today to participate in the Winter Forum. We went to lots of workshops, including:

• Bread Baking
• Woodworking
• Scrapbooking
• Magazine Making
• Tile Art
• Dog Biscuit Making
• Clay
• Food for Your Face
• Cupcake Decorating
• Creative Writing
• Origami
• Felting
• Face Painting
• Cheese Making

We all entered the raffle and most of us had some luck. Daisy won a music playing, heated, massager!!! Lunch included chili, hot dogs, grilled cheese and meatball subs. Overall we had an awesome day and we can't wait until next year!

Click here to see some photos of our day

Trip to the Cemetery

Plant A Smile took a trip to the Newton Cemetery last Sunday. We had a lot of fun reading maps and figuring out if/where the solders were buried at the cemetery. We also came up with a couple of questions to ask at the Jackson Homestead in two weeks. 

Copying down soldiers names from monument.

Marking longitude and latitude on Garmin

Finding our first buried solider-Lt Eben White

Arnold Arboretum

We visited the Arnold Arboretum and Donna Tremonte, an applications programer, showed us how the arboretum uses GIS to map over 15,000 plants! Donna explained to us what GIS is, how you use GIS, how to use the arboretum's interactive map and how she got involved with plants and GIS. When she finished, we went to the visitors center and then walked around the arboretum. Is was REALLY cold out but we hunted and found the arboretum's tree of the month - a Dawn Redwood. We had lots of fun and learned a lot. THANKS DONNA!

Credit to everyone for the awesome pictures!

Click here to view Arnold Arboretum Photos