Final Blog Post!

Hey everyone!

This is our final blog post! Bella and I had the extension, however, we did not need it. We feel very blessed to have this opportunity! We are so happy to see our idea of sharing the idea of gratfeulness through books come alive! We worked very hard to make this come a reality! Special shoutout to Mrs. Jaynes and Linda Ragsdale for helping and guiding us on this journey. Not only the Yvie, Bella's cousin whom we read to, learn more about being grateful, but we did as well! While coming up with a story line for our book, Bella and I had many frat conversations about being grateful because you can be grateful for many ways. We are very grateful for this opportunity! And thank you to everyone for reading and enjoying our blog! :)

Bella and Paige

Books for Blessings

Hey everyone!

This week was great for Books for Blessings! On Thursday, we read the book we wrote called, Billy's Best Friend. It is a book about a boy named Billy who has a pet turtle named Tommy. However, Billy gets tired of Tommy and goes on a search for a brand new pet. He meets many other animals and asks them to be his pet, but they all say no because they can't live in a home, they all belong somewhere else. All of a sudden, Billy realizes Tommy is meant to be in his life and is very grateful for him. We then interviewed Bella's cousin, Yvie, who is in second grade. She loved the book! We are pretty much done with the project! We took the extension to finish up some lose ends! Below is our interview with Yvie.

Interview with Yvie (Yvonne) Hamilton

What are you most thankful for?

Yvie is most thankful for her family.

What was the point of the story?

The point of the story was that he knew he wanted a new pet, but everyone he asked said no.

Have you ever wanted something you couldn't have? Or do you believe that you are always pretty thankful for what you have?

Sometimes you are grateful for things, but you have to experience big events to understand why you should be thankful.

After reading the book, what are you most thankful for?

Yvie is most thankful for her fish. (Didn't appreciate him as much before)

We will see y'all next week with our last Books for Blessings blog post!

Bella and Paige

Almost Done!

Hey Guys!

Paige and I are back again with another blog! It is crazy to think that we are so close to being finished with our Genius Hour Project. It has been a really long, crazy, and stressful ride, but every minute of it was worth it for our final product. We were very thankful for the opportunity to teach a bunch of kids and maybe even a bunch of adults about how important it is to be thankful for the things we don’t think about. This week, Paige and I were able to start our books. And we are very excited to be able to finish and then show it to people. As soon as we finish our two books, we are going to show them to my cousins and evaluate how they react towards them. We are really hoping that we will be able to make a difference. And this upcoming week is going to be very hectic for both Paige and I because we have to finish this project and I will be leaving Friday for a mission trip to Nicaragua. I am really hoping that I am going to be able to make a difference while I am out there. Paige will be writing to you guys next week in light of my absence and we will have had finished out project. See you guys next week!

Bella and Paige