Simone

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Sarah Graves had an assignment to pick a person living or dead to read about, write a book report, create a portrait, and dress up like the person. My gymnastics loving girl picked Simone Biles!
Thank goodness Simone wrote an autobiography after the 2016 Olympics!

Reading the book was no problem, but it took some work to find the motivation to write the report. She left most of the work for the weekend before it was due and I was determined it wouldn’t hang over us all weekend. I had bagged all week wanting her to get it done and didn’t want that for the weekend too.
Friday night was met with much disbelief that I was serious we couldn’t go anywhere until the report was done. There was much pleading and many attempts to negotiate. Finally, Saturday morning she woke up early and got down to business. By 9:30 she had the report written so we could head off to the Home Depot Kids Workshop!
She was very pleased to have it done! I am proud of her beautiful cursive and perseverance to get it done!


After a girls’ lunch at her pick, Chipotle, we had a fun shopping trip at Michael’s. She picked out a set of pastels that made this portrait of Simone a lot more fun!


Then, it was time to go in dressed as Simone, parade around the school, and present her report to the class! We had fun with glitter, spray paint making a gold medal and she was so proud that she has a Simone Biles design leotard to wear!


Her 2nd grade teacher, Ms. Axe, was so kind and sent this picture from the parade.


My favorite part was that she ended her report saying Simone is the GOAT (greatest of all time)!





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