End of School Year Activities and Other Stuff

All the fun and craziness that comes with the end of the school year.

Bonnie started learning guitar in her strings class this year.

Gwen playing "Old McDonald" on the cello

Bonnie getting ready to perform on the cello

Jared playing the cello

The kids and I with our piano teacher after our recital.

A very fuzzy Gwen with a pinhole image of the solar eclipse on her forehead.

Another fuzzy picture of the solar eclipse.

These are videos of Nate and Bonnie's band concert.  Please don't feel that you have to watch the entire videos.  In the first one Bonnie is the flute just to the left of Mr. Ormsbee, the conductor.  He is by far one of the best band teachers of all time and, unfortunately, after this year he got transferred to one of the high schools in the district.  I guess they didn't want to "waste" his talent with the grade-school kids.  He was amazing!  The second one is the jazz band Mr. Ormsbee started at the school.  All the kids came in to practice before school two days a week.  Nate is playing trombone, and Bonnie is the piano player with the ponytail.  She wanted to be in the jazz band, but they don't include flutes so she decided to do piano for it instead.

Bonnie dressed up for her class play about the middle ages.  They made the play up and I am still trying to figure out the whole story months later.  But she was a very cute assassin.