Did you know President Andrew Jackson had a parrot that got him into a little bit of trouble? The sixth grade class at Redwood Elementary knows that and many other facts about U.S. Presidents.

The class has been studying up on presidential facts, and they presented everything they learned Thursday during group presentations on each president.

“Since we have the President’s Day holiday weekend, we decided to do this activity as awareness for the kids for all the different presidents and to explain what we have the holiday for,” teacher Ashley Croomes said.

Coomes came up with the project where students were paired up and then drew a president’s name from a bucket. For about two weeks the students researched on their new chromebooks, created graphic organizers and wrote speeches with the information they found.

“They had a lot of fun working together and hitting those writing skills, social studies and incorporating different subjects together,” Coomes said.

One partner in each group was traced on paper and cut out to create a nearly life-sized version of their president.

The presidential cutout was then decorated with construction paper and markers to wear a suit and hold a prop like a fishing pole or a parrot that described their president’s personality.

“Our project is creating presidents from the past so we can remember them now,” student Demordre Wells said.

Wells, Alice Drinkard and April Skipworth researched 31st president Herbert Hoover and made a model of a Hooverville shack from the Great Depression.

“We’re learning about the Great Depression and we luckily got him,” Drinkard said.

Through the project, the group said they learned about being proactive and to synergize with each other.

“We’ve been working our hardest and trying to make it look good,” Skipworth said.

Hannah Solomon and Brooklyn Hart worked together to research Andrew Jackson.

Solomon said the students had to memorize the speech they wrote so they could recite it during the presentation.

“We had to memorize it, but it’s not a very big speech because we want to roll through it,” Solomon said.

This duo enjoyed working together as a team.

“I learned you can actually learn more when you’re working with a partner and you’re just talking it out,” Hart said. “I hope we do another one.”

Solomon agreed, saying she liked the project and thought it was fun.

“We really worked hard on these projects,” she said.