Today at school, we celebrated International Day where we were able to bring girls in with us to enjoy the festivities. We first marched in the Parade of Nations. Each country that is represented at the school was announced, and while the national anthem was playing, the students and community members that are affiliated with that country marched around the field. We, of course, stood up when they announced the US and wore our red, white, and blue with pride. The girls especially liked wavy their USA flags, and Taelyn even commented on how they were just like the flags at Grandma Pepera's house.
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After the parade, the girls came up to my classroom where the 8th grade students divided up into different classrooms to enjoy various cultural activities. In my room, I hosted a proper English tea party, and the girls helped me out with it. Everyone got dressed up in their proper fancy apparel, made English Breakfast tea and cucumber sandwiches, and then attended the tea party. It was actually time for the girls to go back home for their naps while the tea party was happening, and Taelyn was devastated that she couldn't finish the party. They both LOVE having tea parties at home with their tea sets and are experts at how it is done!
To top the day off, we went to Taelyn's school in the evening for her first concert. Kaelia, Justin, and I sat in the crowd with several of our friends to watch all of the preschool classes come up and sing songs related to an under the sea theme. When it was time for Taelyn's class, Kaelia saw her sister up on stage and immediately ran up to join her. This actually happened a couple of times that night, and we had to keep a close watch on her while also trying to video tape.
Taelyn's class sang three songs. The most memorable was the first one about three blind jellyfish. They had body movements to go along with the song, and it was very cute. Taelyn did a great job singing and attempting to keep up with the motions. At the end of the performance, she was the first one to take a bow before leaving the stage. She loves to bow, and she practices this quite often at home when she is dressed up as a princess. She will bow to us and say, "Your Majesty."
We had such a wonderful Friday with our family, and we are so happy that we could take the kids to work with us today and enjoy some memorable moments all day long!
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After the parade, the girls came up to my classroom where the 8th grade students divided up into different classrooms to enjoy various cultural activities. In my room, I hosted a proper English tea party, and the girls helped me out with it. Everyone got dressed up in their proper fancy apparel, made English Breakfast tea and cucumber sandwiches, and then attended the tea party. It was actually time for the girls to go back home for their naps while the tea party was happening, and Taelyn was devastated that she couldn't finish the party. They both LOVE having tea parties at home with their tea sets and are experts at how it is done!
To top the day off, we went to Taelyn's school in the evening for her first concert. Kaelia, Justin, and I sat in the crowd with several of our friends to watch all of the preschool classes come up and sing songs related to an under the sea theme. When it was time for Taelyn's class, Kaelia saw her sister up on stage and immediately ran up to join her. This actually happened a couple of times that night, and we had to keep a close watch on her while also trying to video tape.
Taelyn's class sang three songs. The most memorable was the first one about three blind jellyfish. They had body movements to go along with the song, and it was very cute. Taelyn did a great job singing and attempting to keep up with the motions. At the end of the performance, she was the first one to take a bow before leaving the stage. She loves to bow, and she practices this quite often at home when she is dressed up as a princess. She will bow to us and say, "Your Majesty."We had such a wonderful Friday with our family, and we are so happy that we could take the kids to work with us today and enjoy some memorable moments all day long!
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