Eli Moore as George Washington

Friday, October 11th, Eli had to give a presentation on George Washington to his 2nd grade class.  He did the research and typed it up.  (It had to be a 5 sentence report.  Five sentences?  Do you know how hard it is for a history teacher to narrow the life of George Washington into a 5 sentence report?) Anyway...Eli did a great job.  We put his costume together with the help of other people, but I couldn't find an appropriate colonial hat, so I tried to make one.  It didn't come out perfect, but it worked.

 Eli at the beginning of his report.

 Eli showing off his photo of George Washington.

After Eli gave his speech, he really came alive and started teaching about Washington to his fellow students as best he could.  In his research, he had also come across a fact stating that one of Washington's favorite meals was cream of peanut soup.  So he tells his class, "every morning, Washington got up, got some cream and some peanuts, put it in the microwave, and had a hot meal".  My little history major has Washington heating his meals up in the microwave.  Oh, well.  It was pretty hilarious, though.  And he really did a fantastic job on his presentation.  I'm so proud of him!