Class Performance

Hannah goes to a magnet school that specializes in the visual and performing arts. And as part of their yearly curriculum, every class must put on a performance at some point in the school year. In Kindegarten, Hannah's class did a Christmas performance, and in first grade, they did a A Walk Through Nursery Rhymes.

For the past two days, Hannah's class has done their performance, titled "Animal Research Reports". The setting for the performance is in a classroom, whereas a new student is greeted by his fellow students who guide him along as to how to get started on his Animal Research Report. And then through conversations and comparisons, the students talk about the animals they've researched. And as previously mentioned in prior posts, Hannah's animal was the lion.

The performance was very cute and the students did a wonderful job and put a lot of time not only into learning their lines and practicing and perfecting, but they also designed the covers of their programs. Each student drew and colored one of the animals mentioned in the performance. It was pretty funny, all of us parents traded programs back and forth and with the greeters until we got programs that had been drawn and colored by our own children. Dedicated parents I tell you! Hannah's programs already have been put into my special memory box for such special papers.Almost all the parents came yesterday, along with grandparents, aunts, uncles, siblings, etc. There were parents that came again today and some grandparents, but today's performance was the day Hannah's family and extended family came to show their love and support. We took up quite a bit of the chairs too!! LOL. Thank you to all of you who came and showed your support, I know Hannah really appreciated the attention. :)

This is the opening to their performance.

Convincing her fellow classmates why lions don't have an easy life.


And here is the entire class, and their hard working teacher, giving the paparazzi, I mean parents and grandparents, one last group shot.At dinner tonight, we asked Hannah if she was glad to have her performance behind her, and surprisingly she said no, she was a little sad it was all over because it had been so much fun! Hopefully the confidence she built up with these performances in the last two days will help boost her confidence tomorrow when she competes in her Karate Tournament!