Olivia’s Shows

Towards the end of May, Olivia had 3 different shows that she was in.

The first was Ms. Brown’s Insect Fair.  When we found out that Olivia was going to have Ms. Brown for 1^st grade, I did a little recon and found out all good things about her, including that she did 2 special activities with the kids that the other 1^st grade teachers didn’t do – a lesson on Charles Dickens’ Christmas Carol during the Winter + an Insect Fair in the Spring.  We absolutely loved the caroling so we were excited for Insect Fair.  About 6 weeks beforehand, the kids started learning about what they would be doing.  Each kid got assigned an insect.  Olivia got the honeybee.  She was pretty happy with that.  And then they had to research that insect and write 2 books on them – one fiction and one non-fiction.  But the fiction story had to be based on some realistic aspect of their insect.  In addition, they put on a show for all the parents with these poems and songs that they had all memorized.  The amount of work that went into this Fair was unbelievable!  All the kids were so prepared with their stories and poems.  Olivia was in several songs/poems but the best was on about the worker bees v. queen bee.  In this poem, Olivia got the part of the Queen Bee.  Apparently she had  to try out for it and one day she came home telling us she got the part!  The next day I got an email from Ms. Brown with some information on the costume and her lines.  It was a pretty long poem that she and her friends memorized about the differences between the queen and workers.  They all did great! 

It was pretty endearing to see her in that role!  And as if that wasn’t enough, after the show they went out and got ready at their “booths.”  These kiddos had done some amazing research into the insects they were assigned.  Olivia had 2 bound books complete with illustrations, indexes, and a glossary!  This school and teacher never cease to amaze us!  I don’t think I have the words to adequately convey how impressed and proud we were of all these kids!

 

Then it was time for Grandparents Day.  The 1^st Graders put on a show entitled “Food, Glorious Food” and invited the grandparents to come watch.  It was a great show and I think the grandparents all loved it! 

And finally she had her annual ballet recital.  Unfortunately the date got rescheduled because of some bad weather on the original date, so Matt wasn’t able to come.  But she did a great job and we taped it for daddy to watch later!