Old Hammondtown kids crack the case with Nancy Drew, Hardy Boys
Apr 20, 2016
Lily Pennock created a paper maché oak tree and filled it with artifacts after reading “The Message in the Hollow Oak.” Lily said she remembered her older sister doing a mystery project when she was in fifth grade. “She borrowed these handcuffs I had got from an arcade, and I still haven’t gotten them back.” BY GEORGIA SPARLING
The students in Kris Brammer’s fifth grade class at Old Hammondtown School were knee deep in intrigue for their latest assignment.
Over four weeks, the students each read a book in the Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys mystery series and then created journal entries, letters, displays and souvenirs to go with their book, using the school’s Chromebooks, Google Classroom, and of course, good old fashioned paper maché.
See some of the projects below.
Lily Pennock created a paper maché oak tree and filled it with artifacts after reading “The Message in the Hollow Oak.” Lily said she remembered her older sister doing a mystery project when she was in fifth grade. “She borrowed these handcuffs I had got from an arcade, and I still haven’t gotten them back.” BY GEORGIA SPARLING
“I just read any kind of mystery. I like that they leave you on the edge of your seat when the chapter ends,” said Kyle McCullough, who read a Hardy Boys mystery featuring a grandfather clock. “You had no idea that the clock went along with the story.” BY GEORGIA SPARLING
Sean Davis read the Hardy Boys “The Shore Road Mystery.” To illustrate the book, he filled a wooden chest with fake explosives, a message in a bottle and a can of hairspray turned nerve gas, all found in the story. Sean gave the book 4½ stars. “There were some dull parts,” he said. BY GEORGIA SPARLING
A seaside mystery for a student who lives by the sea. BY GEORGIA SPARLING
Nicole Londergan's Nancy Drew mystery was a set in Florida with camera thieves. "I like mysteries, and they just kind of keep you on the edge of your seat, always wondering what’s happening next," she said. "Sometimes when I’m reading a book I’m yelling in my head. 'This is it! This is it!' but then they were right and I was wrong." BY GEORGIA SPARLING
Aiden O’Donnell designed his project in the shape of a waterwheel to match an image in the Hardy Boy mystery he read. BY GEORGIA SPARLING
"It wasn’t really the greatest book, but it was still good," said Mason Hanks of "The Great Airport Mystery." BY GEORGIA SPARLING
