Aurora’s Robot

Aurora’s class has been reading “My Robot by Eve Bunting” This book is about different things a robot can do.

Aurora had a family homework assignment this week, to design and build a robot. The first thing Aurora asked for was blue construction paper. I asked her why and she said “I need it for my blueprint.” She wrote a design on blue construction paper with a white crayon. (sorry there is no image it didn’t show up well in the picture) She was also instructed to write a short paragraph describing her Robot and it’s special skills. She wrote “ My robot can do my homework for me. It plays games with me. It is very funny. It reads with me before bedtime. I like it that way. It goes to sleep with me. It guards me while I’m sleeping. It’s name is CooCoo Head.” We had a really fun time going to Lowes to look for parts on Family Night, PVC pipes for legs and feet, springs for arms (and yes they will wave at you), #10 cans for the body, a peach can for the neck, a lamp visor for the head and a head lamp for it’s brain. Aurora and her Dad are the engineers who put CooCoo together. You can’t tell very well from these pictures but a special feature of Aurora’s robot it that in the center of the funnel (lamp visor) is a light that turns on and off and also can blink. This is Aurora’s idea of it’s brain. And of course it’s a girl!! Aurora points out that while it’s wearing it’s necklace and tutu it is from a robot planet called “Hawaii”. (She thinks with these accessories it looks at though CooCoo Head will hula) You may also be wondering about the name CooCoo Head, no it does not imply crazy, it’s part of Aurora’s unique language of CooCoo. She has invented it herself and uses it often, most words in the CooCoo language include CooCoo and CooCoo-minga. Well CooCoo Head will be making her appearance at school tomorrow and we are anxious to see how she’ll be received. We are sure it will be to immense applause. Way to go Aurora!