MY FAIR GARDEN was written by Jenny. She was in 6th grade when she wrote and created this powerpoint. I love her story and I hope you will like it too.

1. MY FAIR GARDEN AUTOBIOGRAPHY BY:JENNIFER EISKAMP

2. Yes! It was finally September. I was looking forward to this month, September 2005, because it was the month of the Santa Cruz County Fair, held at the Watsonville Fairgrounds. I was extremely excited because a couple weeks before, my friend Madison had asked me if I wanted to enter a garden with her in the fair. I agreed, so I was really excited that the time had come to get started.

3. First, we decided what we wanted to do: what plants to get’ and where to put the plants. We decided to include a table with chairs, and we would put stuffed animals on the chairs. We also wanted to add a ton of flowers around the table and chairs, and a backdrop. On our backdrop we wanted to paint flowers, a sun in the corner, and a blue sky with a couple of clouds. That was our plan for our garden.

4. The Saturday before the fair opened Madison, her mom, my mom, and I, went to the fairgrounds and found out where we were setting up our garden. After that we set our plants in place, and we made sure we left room for the table, chairs, and path. We planted some flowers, then left.

5. On Sunday we came back and finished up. We put the table and chairs in. we also made the path and put up our backdrop. We added little paper butterflies in miscellaneous places. We checked everything to make sure it was as perfect as it could be. The judges would judge our garden on Monday.

6. On Monday morning my mom and Madison’s mom Kelly went to the Fairgrounds after they dropped us off at school. They watered the flowers extra well, because the judges were going to judge in an hour. At school I was very nervous about what place we would get. However I couldn’t worry about that, because I would find out on Tuesday.

7. Yeah! It was Tuesday afternoon. After school Madison and I got a chance to see our garden. On our way there, I was very nervous and I had butterflies in my stomach. When Madison and I got to our garden, we saw that we got second place. We were really happy. It wasn’t first but that was okay with us. We were happy because we had fun.

8. A week later we got our ribbons and our calculations back from the judges. We counted up our points on a calculator, and the judges had counted wrong. We were supposed to get first place! The next day we took the right points back to the fair and got our first place ribbons. It felt awesome !