Nate's 2nd Grade Class Dance

Nate's Advanced Dance Performance

Evie's 1st Grade Class Dance

Winter Performance

Nate and Evie go to a charter school that focuses on the arts. They attend dance, theater, music, and art in addition to their regular classes, and they spend the semester preparing for a performance. The teachers always do an excellent job putting it all together, and this year was no exception! Attending the performance is one of my favorite things.

This semester Nate was in advanced dance and Evie was in advanced theater, so they had those performances in addition to their others. Here are a few pictures and video to show off a little of their hard work.

I took this the morning of their performance. 

Nate and Evie were super excited to be spending the day doing dress rehearsal. 

Simon was happy to be spending the day with his recorder and saw. 

 Nate as Santa in his class's theater performance.

 Evie playing the "Little Girl" in her advanced theater performance.

 Evie as a penguin in her class's theater performance.

 Stephen went to get Evie from the stage and give her flowers at the
end of the performance. I was glad they looked in my direction for a second.

They were so proud!

My Semester

The end of my Library and Information Science degree program is in sight. I only have one online course to complete next semester, and then I'll complete my practicum next Fall. I pushed myself this semester with two classes. One was a beastly cataloging class that turned out to be way more challenging than I anticipated. The other was a Multicultural Literature for Children and Young Adults class that turned out to be even more enjoyable than I anticipated. I got to study literature from six different cultural groups within the United States. I learned A TON and can't wait to share it with my students some day!

For a sample of the work I did this semester, visit my blog Literature for Children and Young Adults.