Busy Day

Yesterday was a busy day for Jessie and Brennan.

Every year each first grade class does a production of a short Peter Rabbit play. Yesterday was the day of the performances--well, they had some "dress rehearsals" with audiences on Wednesday, but yesterday was the day families could come. Brennan had the part of Peter for his class. We went to the afternoon performance. He did a great job. He had all of his lines memorized, and he said them all loud enough to be heard. I'll try to get some pictures up later.

Then, yesterday evening was the 3rd grade music program. Each class writes a song for the group to perform. Then, at the end, they have the parents help write another one, and the third graders then sing it to a variety of different styles of music. Again, we thought Jessie did a great job (as well as all the other third graders). The only disappointment was that Jessie's class' song wasn't performed. All the songs are supposed to be school-spirit songs, and her class had written a song about the principal. But a few weeks ago the school got a new principal. Originally, the old principal was going to come for the program, but she couldn't make it, so they decided to keep the song for another time when she can be there.

Usually, the music teacher keeps the songs and uses them in other assemblies over the coming years. Of course, for similar reasons, Jessie's song isn't going to be one that is featured, I don't think... Oh, well. The songs they did do were very entertaining. And looking to the future, it's nice that when Brennan gets to third grade it won't be the same program, since all the songs are new every year...

I'll try to get some pictures up eventually, but since we'll be on vacation all next week, it might not be real soon...