Today was John’s 3rd Grade Concert. The theme was “Sing and Play Across the USA.” The kids were not only singing but playing the recorder as well. John was a little nervous when I got him on the bus this morning. He said “I’m worried about my recorder solos. One song is really fast and… Continue reading 3rd Grade Concert
Friday Gillian’s school had their first ever Kindergarten Music Concert. The kids have been practicing for months. Gillian has been home singing songs for weeks now (check out the lion sleeps tonight). The theme was “Old MacDonald Had a What?” The kids started out singing Old MacDonald and then replace a common farm animal… Continue reading Kindergarten Concert
Tonight, Gillian kept singing this little song. It went something like “follow directions quickly.” Later I heard her say “Rule number two.” Finally I got her to sit still long enough to sing the full song. Her art teacher made up these simple rules for her classroom. The song helped Gillian to remember. Very… Continue reading Classroom rules
Gillian’s Preschool Graduation was on Tuesday last week. She was very excited to graduate and was up bright and early that morning. Daddy and I dropped Gillian off at school and we were able to get front row seats for graduation. TLC combined the Kindergarten and Preschool Graduations, so there was a lot of kids. … Continue reading Gillian’s Preschool Graduation
Friday was John’s 2nd Grade Concert. This year the theme was Character Counts. MFA teaches the kids “Pillars of Character.” The pillars are Responsibility, Respect, Citizenship, Caring, Trustworthiness, and Caring. They focus on a pillar every month and it was nice to see an entire concert focused on everything they learn throughout the year. I have… Continue reading 2nd Grade Concert
Today was the annual Thanksgiving Pageant at Gillian’s school. All the classes sing songs and then they have a turkey lunch. Since Gillian’s class was going to sing songs about turkeys, all the kids in her class had headbands with turkey legs on them. Here are some videos of the songs. Once again, TLC put… Continue reading Thanksgiving pageant
Today was the second day of camp shows at Briar Hill. Since I am so close to camp, I had decided to go to go both days. Today I asked Grandma and Grandpa to join me. Aunt Betty also came, because we didn’t actually get to see John perform yesterday. We arrived at camp today… Continue reading Camp Show – take two
Gillian wanted to watch Frozen again this weekend. We have been singing the songs ever since. Tonight at dinner, we were listening to Pandora and “Do you want to build a snowman?” came on. The kids faces lit up and they sang along. It came to the line “Do you want to build a snowman?… Continue reading In the hall
On John’s first day of school, he came home and told us “We are going to have a music concert in June!” (check out First Day of First Grade). Well he was wrong, the concert wasn’t in June, it was in January! The concert was on Friday. John has been talking about the concert for… Continue reading Sunshine
Aunt Betty came over today to help me decorate some Halloween cookies. We took a little break to eat dinner. After dinner, Gillian came upstairs and decided to sing a little song with Aunt Betty. Aunt Betty asked her to sing the alphabet song. Gillian had another idea. She grabbed Aunt Betty’s hands and started… Continue reading Cows in the meadow
John and Gill went up a hill 