Christmas Sing

  

Tanner and Kiersten's school has an event on the last December day before Christmas break, and it's called Christmas Sing. Each grade sings two songs together for the parents, and later for the whole school to see. Tanner's class sang "Island Christmas" and "The 12 Days of Christmas". Kiersten's sang "I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas" and "The Chipmunk Song". It was fun to see.

First Day of School

School started two weeks ago! Brittany and Jared are now in high school. Brittany is taking pity on Jared and driving him (at least for now). It's nice to have her there, able to point him the right direction at lunch and that kind of thing.

Tanner and Kiersten are together in sixth and first grade. They are both doing well so far. Kiersten has Mrs. Wallace and Tanner has Mrs. Call.

Kiersten is waiting in line for the doors to open before school.

Tanner is excited to have permission to use a laptop from home to do his writing in class. This is something we asked for to help him write faster and be able to get all those amazing thoughts down on paper!

Hope of America!

Tanner's school participates in Hope of America! at the BYU Marriott Center every year. The fourth graders do a dance on the floor, and the fifth graders are in the flag chorus. Tanner was pretty stressed about getting there late this year (we were a little late last year) and so we went early! No traffic, it was great! But we did have to wait about two hours for the show to start! (They were supposed to be there an hour early).

Tanner almost alone on the bleachers! At least I knew where he was...

See what I mean about knowing where he was! This is all fifth graders!

Tanner is right in the center of this photo, the lower of the two white rows, with a blue collar on his shirt.

The best part of the show is the last song. The flag kids have flashlights and they shine all over the stadium; there's also a disco ball effect going on.

Dioramas!

Kiersten's class made dioramas! Hers is on the flamingo. She did the whole thing, except she had me cut out the flamingo. 

The parents got to come and see the kids' hard work!

Fawn was in town for Christi's BYU graduation, so she came with me!