Science Fair/Aliza's Violin

This week is Science Fair week at the Elementary. It was fun to walk around yesterday and see all the fun projects. Oh, the things you can learn from 4th and 5th graders. Some of them were just fun and silly facts that I would have never known otherwise. Like, perhaps you didn't know that, of all the crayon colors, black melts the fastest. :)

This was Abbie's yeast project. She researched a lot about yeast, and came up with the idea of testing yeast in different water temperatures. We had a lot of fun conducting the actual experiment. The first batch we added way too much yeast, and it pretty much exploded on us. It was pretty funny.

I think Aliza has been trying to tell me something the past few days. She has been carrying around this spoon and knife playing it like a violin. I turn on music and she pretends to play. This morning after I sat down with Abbie and Avery to practice she came over and said "I think you are forgetting somebody." If I only had the patience and money to get her started. I started Abbie at four years old, and I do believe that it is the perfect time to introduce music. It teaches so much discipline and ear training, but not right now. Maybe in the near future.

Choir Concert

After a fun filled year of Choir for Abbie, it finally came to an end. A few weeks back (very late post) Abbie performed her island themed Spring Choir Concert. She tried out for an acting part, and made it which was fun. She was thrilled, and did really well at memorizing her part. I'm always telling her that she would be great at acting, but she always informs me that she doesn't want to do acting. Little does she know that this was pretty much acting. hehe

There were two beach chairs set up in front of the choir where Abbie and Emilee (the two actresses) sat during the concert. In between each song they would do a little skit about being on vacation at the beach to lead into the next song. They both did such a great job. They had a new music director at the school this year, and I think she did a fantastic job with the students.

I had to take a picture of the program, because who knows where it will end up. I have bins full of papers from programs, but I figure this is nice to have a picture of it. If you watch this first video all the way to the end, she is the one in the orange shirt speaking. Now matter how early I try to get to these performances I still always get a crapy seat.

I went to all her performances that day. It just happened that Aliza had preschool that morning and I was already at the school volunteering, so I stayed to watch it twice in the morning, and then came back that night for the parent show. As you can tell from the video's she is wearing different clothes. During the day they had to wear school uniform, and then changed into bright fun colors for the parent show. It was such a cute show. The video's don't even do it justice. Great job Abbie!

BUGZ

The whole second grade put on a cute play called "Bugz" last week. Micah and I were able to go see the final show last Thursday morning, and it was really cute. Avery was thrilled to be picked as a lady bug for the show. The play was about going on a picnic and all the different bugs that will be there. Her group of "ladies" sang a song titled "Be a Lady" which talked about having good manners at the picnic. It was really cute.

There were army ants, fireflies, butterflies, stink bugs, and of course lady bugs. She had such a fun time learning all the songs and practicing for the play. It was a good experience.

I did video some of the singing, but it's too long to blog. If I can figure out how to crop it I will share, but most likely this is all you get. Sorry.

Rapunzel

Sometimes when we are running errands Aliza will get really excited when she sees the Stratosphere in the distance. She just watches it out of the car window saying "Rupunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair." I will never forget the first time she made the connection that it looked somewhat like Rupunzels tower. She was so excited, and kept saying "there it is mom, it's Rupunzel's house." Too cute!

Art Show

This post is really late, but a few weeks back we were able to attend our school art show/carnival. They always do a great job displaying the children's art, and making them feel fantastic about what they have done in art all year. This banner was made by Abbie and a few of her friends in her class. One day she came home from school completely covered in paint because of this project. No, I'm not complaining just mentioning it so I remember how excited she was about this poster. She had a great time making it, and I love that it's still hanging in the cafeteria at the school.

This was Avery's masterpiece.

This is Abbie's masterpiece. It was fun to walk around and see all of the students work. I didn't get any great pictures of the carnival, but it was fun too.

Spring Recital 2011

We finally found a violin teacher that I absolutely love, and the girls started taking lessons again last month. It only took a year and a half to find just the right violin teacher, so we are just starting to jump back into music lessons. After just a few short weeks of lessons Abbie and Avery were able to perform for the Spring recital. I'm so proud of my girls for all their hard work.

That time of year again......

It's hard to believe that it was already 90 plus degrees outside this past week. The winter seemed to just fly by this year. Luckily, when it seems to get really hot, we then a have few days of cooler temperatures to keep it tolerable. We took our first dip in our pool for the season last Saturday. Micah and I still think it's too cold, but the kids just played and played and played.

What a great time of year!

Talent Show

Abbie was so lucky to be chosen for the talent show again this year. I thought she for sure wouldn't make the cut because she was in it last year, but she made it. It's a interesting process they put these kids through to try out. I wish they would just do it by grade level and have lots of little talent shows so not only 15 or so kids get to participate. I love that she has been playing in front of people so long that it doesn't seem to make her nervous at all. She can get up in front of almost anyone like it is no big deal.

They did three assemblies of the show last Friday. Micah and I were able to come to the last show to see her perform. She was really disappointed that she messed up a little bit in the beginning, but I think she pulled it off really well. We are very proud of her!