Category: school
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1st Variety Show practice
The first practice was filled with lots of chaos and drama. Kids wouldjust create acts on the fly including Monti who decided at the lastminute to join her friend in a poetry reading act. There were alsotears when one girl was dropped from an act by her so-called friends.We have a lot of work to…
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Indian, Pilgrims, and Turkeys
Each kindergarten class came to the feast dressed as a different Thanksgiving character. Dahlia’s class came dressed as Indians. They joined kids dressed as pilgrims and turkeys to sing a couple songs for the parents after they were done eating.
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Getting the food ready for the feast
I worked with several other parents for an hour getting all the foodready for the feast. It took so long to cut up all the fruit for thefruit salad and it killed me when they poured in marshmallows and CoolWhip on top of all of our perfectly good fruit. In the end, the kids hardlytouched…
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Organizing Christmas caroling performance
We had our first practice and organizational meeting for the schoolcaroling group. A group of 50 students will be performing Christmas carols at a two of the assisted living homes in Issaquah.The woman organizing the group had a subset of us over to herhouse to figure things out before the entire group would practice together.Monti…
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Lockdown drill
The kids during the week had a lockdown drill at school. Dahlia explained that it is what they do when there is a bad person who enters the school. She told me the teacher locks the door, covers the windows, and they sit on the floor and hold their breath (literally). I do wonder if…