PROJECT AUTOMATON and ABE

We're totally enjoying the book, "The Invention of Hugo Cabret!"....each chapter holds little quirky mysteries that build upon each other! I am very surprised a kids movie isn't being created from this Caldecott Winner! Maybe eventually? For creative arts yesterday, I gathered a couple of old watches that for some reason or another...Brad managed to "save." I let Tommie take them apart and his lesson (and what a tough one this was!) was to build his own PROJECT AUTOMATON! (a self-moving robot!)

This is his finished project... boy, was it hard for me not to offer suggestions...put this here, why don't you....? Creating projects like this are right up my alley! Instead, I read aloud, from our read aloud, "The Loner," which is in my sidebar...it's wonderful! It's so nice...because it has a Christian flavor..not a lot of Caldecott Winner's make references to the Bible in their writings! 2 thumbs up for this book! AND.... by the way..see the doiley under the lamp (above)...I bought it at the .25 cent store- for .25 cents!

The AUTOMATON really moves...although not on his own! He moves with the help of two magnets...one magnet on the bottom and the other under a table.

I ordered 35 each...of these free books, for our homeschool co-op's freebie table and for friends and family! The books would make for an awesome book club series at your co-op!
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