The Lone Star Baby's class spent a lot of time studying important people for Hispanic Heritage Month - they even stretched it out past the 15th through yesterday. I was thrilled when the Lone Star Baby came home talking about Cesar Chavez and even more thrilled when she came home talking about Dolores Huerta. She told me at the start of the unit they were going to dress up as an important Hispanic person some time in the future. I had visions of making a stencil of a UFW eagle and making her a shirt like that to be Dolores Huerta, along with signs - "Viva La Raza!" and "Viva La Huelga!" and "Uvas No!"
Then she came home one day and said that she had been assigned to research Linda Ronstadt. Sigh. Someone else got Dolores Huerta. Such is life.
So she researched the answers to the questions about Linda Ronstadt's life that her teacher had given her and made a poster of pictures of Linda Ronstadt and yesterday she dressed up like a late 60s/early 70s Linda and took a tambourine to school and did her presentation. Lone Star Pa took off work to watch and go to her Red Ribbon Week picnic.
Even if she had to be Linda Ronstadt, it was a pretty good project for first graders to do, I thought.
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