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Fourth-Grader is a winner!
That’s his name. Or is it her name?
No matter.
Fourth-Grader is a faceless cutout that followed Mrs. Elizabeth Delonti’s fourth-grade class for a day during the 2010-11 school year at Mayfield Elementary School. The class documented Fourth-Grader’s experience in photographs for a book documenting the typcial school day of a typical fourth-grader.
The class then entered the book for competition at the Harford Fair Schoolhouse Exhibit, and won a first place ribbon for their effort.
“Most teachers enter multiple projects, but the Mayfield class entered only one,” stated Miss Cindy Reynolds, a fair official. “We had about 1,500 entries this year, and Mrs. Delonti’s fourth-graders took first place with their one entry.”
The cardboard cutout Fourth-Grader was with the students (who are now fifth-graders) as they entered the school building in the morning, studied with them in class, played with them in gym, read with them in the library, had lunch with them in the cafeteria, and left the school at the end of the day — all documented with photographs.
“Our fourth-grader had to be gender-neutral,” Mrs. Delonti explained. “So it has no face, hair, clothes or colors. That’s why we selected the namd ‘Fourth-Grader.’
Fourth-Grader is a winner!
That’s his name. Or is it her name?
No matter.
Fourth-Grader is a faceless cutout that followed Mrs. Elizabeth Delonti’s fourth-grade class for a day during the 2010-11 school year at Mayfield Elementary School. The class documented Fourth-Grader’s experience in photographs for a book documenting the typcial school day of a typical fourth-grader.
The class then entered the book for competition at the Harford Fair Schoolhouse Exhibit, and won a first place ribbon for their effort.
“Most teachers enter multiple projects, but the Mayfield class entered only one,” stated Miss Cindy Reynolds, a fair official. “We had about 1,500 entries this year, and Mrs. Delonti’s fourth-graders took first place with their one entry.”
The cardboard cutout Fourth-Grader was with the students (who are now fifth-graders) as they entered the school building in the morning, studied with them in class, played with them in gym, read with them in the library, had lunch with them in the cafeteria, and left the school at the end of the day — all documented with photographs.
“Our fourth-grader had to be gender-neutral,” Mrs. Delonti explained. “So it has no face, hair, clothes or colors. That’s why we selected the namd ‘Fourth-Grader.’
