End of School Activities

  Now that school is about to start again I figured I better post some pictures from the end of last school year.

 

Bonnie and Jared at their orchestra concert.  Their teacher was so pleased with both of them and how well they did that she let them bring their school-issued instruments home for the summer so they could continue to practice.

 Nate preparing to play with the advanced band.  His band teacher would let younger students play with the more advanced band if they came in after school and passed of several pieces.  Nate loved band and his teacher was fantastic.  He recommended Nate for the District Honor Jazz Band.  Nate tried out and made it into the band.  The Jazz Band consists of 17 junior-high-age students in the district.  Way to go Nate!

 Bonnie played flute in Band this year.  She did a great job.  Again, their band teacher, Mr. Ormsbee, has been phenomenal.  We are glad he is going to be there again this next year.

 Jared's class took a two-week "cruise" around the world.  The learned about several different countries along with their food, customs, and clothing.  This was when he returned to port on the last day of the cruise.

 

 Bonnie's class had a cake making contest.  Bonnie's team chose to make an island with a volcano.  Since Bonnie was chosen as team captain I was the lucky mom who got to bake the cake and design the volcano.  Thankfully I had a good suggestion to make the volcano out of chocolate rice krispy treats.  It worked out great for them.  They did a really good job.

 

 Right towards the end of the school year we had a piano recital.  The kids all did a great job.  I didn't do too bad either, but due to sick kids, Ben being in India, and me being extremely nervous, after the recital when our teacher told me I did good I broke down in tears.  Not my finest moment, but I recovered, all except for the red nose and eyes in this pictures. :)

The kids elementary school every day on the last day has a "Mock Rock". It's an activity where individuals, small groups, or whole classes participate in a lip sync.  Bonnie's class did "Hawaiian Roller Coaster Ride".  This is Bonnie with her best friend Hana dressed up to be hula girls.

We had a very fun and very busy end of the school year.  While all this was going on, I went a little crazy in the head and decided to clean out, paint, and rearrange our three upstairs bedrooms.  I thought it would be fun to surprise Ben when he got home from his trip, and it was, but amidst sick kids and end of school activities this may not have been the best timing. It's done now though and I am thrilled with the results.  Here are the before and after pictures.

This is the guest room in the middle of cleaning it out.  I forgot to take a before picture, but just trust that it was much messier.  The guest room became....

The boys room, complete with a chalkboard wall

The boys old room

 Which again I forgot a complete before picture so you will just have to imagine that there were two more piles of junk about this size and a bunk bed.  How do boys get so messy?  Was turned into...

 

The girls bedroom, again with a chalkboard wall.

 Bonnie's desk that she found at a yard sale and decided was perfect to do homework on.

 And the girls bedroom...

Became the new guest room. 

 Whew!  That concludes our end-of-school-year fun!  Next post, on to summer!