The first practice was filled with lots of chaos and drama. Kids would
just create acts on the fly including Monti who decided at the last
minute to join her friend in a poetry reading act. There were also
tears when one girl was dropped from an act by her so-called friends.
We have a lot of work to do in 4 weeks.
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.
I worked with several other parents for an hour getting all the food
ready for the feast. It took so long to cut up all the fruit for the
fruit salad and it killed me when they poured in marshmallows and Cool
Whip on top of all of our perfectly good fruit. In the end, the kids hardly
touched the marshmallow/Cool-Whip/fruit but the popcorn was devoured.
We had our first practice and organizational meeting for the school
caroling 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 her
house to figure things out before the entire group would practice together.
Monti is one of the kids singing a solo. She is doing the first verse
of “When Christmas Comes to Town” from The Polar Express movie.
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 this truly prepares the kids for a likely event or if it gives them another thing to unnecessarily stress about in life. After researching it a little I found that on average 1 person is killed each year and 80 are injured in school fires. In the last 10 years there have been 118 shooting deaths on school property. This only includes K-12 schools. So sadly I have concluded that there is good reason to practice a lockdown situation at such an early age. Dahlia is still waiting for us to practice a lockdown drill at home.