Six Classics Presentations!

My students must do four presentations on classic books they have read during their two years with me. Those who really fall in love with classic literature sometimes ask to do an extra presentation (which always amazes me as the paper and project take a good deal of work.)

This girl chose to do TWO extras, one during her fourth grade year, and then the other this year. And it just so happened that this year's extra classic presentation was my last ever since I am retiring.

Her choice? Walter Farley's The Black Stallion.

She even dressed for the occasion.

 And made a really cool movie as her project.

It was a claymation/stop motion movie complete with sound and a blooper reel!

The classics presentations are my absolute favorite thing to do with my kids and is what I will miss most during retirement - having the kids discover that classics are not just "dusty old books on your grandmother's bookshelves" (as they are fond of saying in jest.)

To have my last classic be a student's second extra presentation was just the best for me. The fact that is was a horsey book was the cherry on top.