The day before Thanksgiving the kids school had a Turkey Trot. Their new school does it a little different than their old school. They have a time limit and they see who can run the most laps around the field before the time limit is up. Every lap around their teacher puts a new mark on their hand then they count up the marks at the end. The first place runner in each grade gets a pie. Well, apparently my boys are runners. They both won for their grades. Apparently after Jared finished his race the cross country coach hunted him down to see what grade he was in because they can start cross country in third grade. She told Jared that she needed him next year. Nathan ran two or three laps more than the closest boy in his class, that boy happens to be on the cross country team. It looks like next year we will have another activity on our list of things to do.
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| My runners |
Jared and Gwen participated in a Readers' Theater for their classes. Jared was Agent 006 and Gwen was Linda the Good Fairy. They did a great job.
I graduated from dental assisting school at the end of December. The did a whole graduation ceremony and I was the speaker for our class. It seemed a bit much to me for a three-month course, but it was a good experience. I really loved school and I made a lot of friends.
We had an orchestra concert, a band concert, and a piano recital all in December.
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| Jared is playing violin and he got to play a solo during the concert |
Bonnie is playing the flute and the cello in school this year.
Nate is playing the trombone in the 6th grade band. His teacher had a challenge for all the students that if they passed off several pieces of music they would be able to play a piece during the concert with the 7th and 8th grade band. There were about 7 students that did the challenge and Nate was one of them.
The kids have all been taking piano lessons this year and they are doing so good. We love their teacher and she comes to our house every Tuesday to give them all lessons. It is so nice to not have to go back and forth with four kids for lessons.
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| The kids with their piano teacher, Amanda Leach |
Overall we had a busy, and tiring, December with school activities.
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| Jared and Gwen during the band concert. |
3 comments:
What a great update. Way to go all of you, we are very proud of y'all. Mom & Dad, Grandma & Grandpa
Man you have a very talented family. They are all so musically inclined...probably because you don't have any sort of hearing problems in your family :)
I am loving this "catch-up!!" Keep 'em commin'!
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