Blast Off!!

So I am a little out of chronological order here...sue me.

About a month ago, Greyson's school had it's Fall Book Fair and the theme was Blast Off Into Reading.  As part of the hoopla leading up to it, each child was offered a chance to build their own rocket for the fair to be displayed in the library.  It was an optional assignment, but one that Greyson was very excited to undertake.  The requirements were to create a rocket out of household materials that demonstrated your favorite book.  Greyson chose Pinocchio (the original, not the bastardized Disney version, thank you very much) and designed his rocket all by himself.  With only small amount of Daddy help (scooping out the bottom of the Styrofoam ball to insert on the paper towel roll and printing out the book page) he did it all by himself.  And for a little guy I was really impressed with his imagination and understanding of the what was being asked of him.  So without further ado......

(It is hard to tell from the picture but we scanned and reprinted the picture from the book showing Gepetto carving Pinocchio out of wood and wrapped it around the center of the rocket)

During the book fair all the kids voted on their favorite rocket (there were 70 entries all together) and the winner won a prize.  Now, being the volunteering Mom that I am, I actually worked the Book Fair and as such got to be in on the vote tally and am very proud to say that Greyson got 7 votes for his rocket, which for a Kindergartner competing with 4th graders is pretty impressive.  I would also like to note that while the 1st place rocket (done by a 4th grader) was an impressive rocket, just putting the faces of the Harry Potter characters in the windows of your spaceship does not necessarily make it a Harry Potter themed ship, I am just saying.  I would dare say that my son embraced the concept better than the winner.