THE GENERAL HAS ARRIVED!

After a week of pasting, drying, sculpting, more pasting, painting, designing, cutting, sewing, and hot gluing, Dane has finished his George Washington puppet.

His presentation is on Friday, and last night he said he plans to hold his puppet in his hand and say something like this:

Hi, I'm George Washington. I was the General during the Revolutionary War. I was also the first President of the United States.

Then Dane plans to tell the story of the Crossing of the Delaware, when the soldiers crossed the cold and icy Delaware in the middle of the night on Christmas to surprise the Hessians and win an important victory for the revolutionaries.

But Dane has to iron out the details of that one and get them in good order so he can tell a great story.

We'll work on that tonight. After the General's nose has been properly cleaned.

GEORGE WASHINGTON
Dane dictates a post about his upcoming book report

My name is Dane. Anjies son. I am doing a reading report for my class. It is about George Washington. I have learned a lot about him. My grandpa is really into the Revolutionary War, so he's going to be a lot of help. For sure.

So far I know George Washington won the Battle of Cowpens and he won the Battle Across the Delaware. Those were pretty important battles. Cowpens was very important. I'm serious about that. I'll tell the story of that.

Okay, well, in the Battle of Cowpens, George Washington's team lined up in three lines. The first line was called The Sharpshooters. The second line was called, well, the ones that didn't have much practice. And the third row was the really experienced troops. General George Washington told the men in the front row to shoot three shots and retreat -- and only shoot when you see the whites of their eyes. And the second row would do the same. And then the third row was hidden behind a little hill, and that's the surprise.

And then the British came marching down, and the first row fired their shots, retreated to the side. Then the second row shot their shots and retreated to the other side. And then the rest of the British soldiers came marching forward and forward, and then the last, the third row, surprised them and got most of them.

And then they kept shooting, and then the two other lines swarmed around them and that was the end of the battle.

The End. By Dane.
See? We just found this. That's the same map from the Battle of Cowpens movie!