Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Happy Multicultural Day!

Happy Multicultural Day!  What? You celebrate Christmas not multicultural day?  That's odd.

Jenna's school does not celebrate Christmas or have a holiday party of any kind. They celebrate multicultural day. 

Really?

Multicultural day can be celebrated any day of the year, Christmas falls on Dec. 25th and a holiday party would just be nice.

Even so, Jenna had a writer's workshop in which she had two speaking parts. She was very excited to have two speaking parts.  She read some of the things she wrote this school year and even gave an introduction to the workshop. She read very quickly. It is something she enjoys doing - surprising me by reading like a 15 year old :).
Jenna's first speaking part: the introduction to the workshop

Jenna reading her individual story

At Sarah's preschool she did have a Christmas program and she sang "Go Tell it on the Mountain" and "Jingle Bells". She had been practicing at home so she would deliver the song with proper tonation. Sarah is on the end in the white dress.  They all wore cute reindeer headbands.

She looks so serious!
On Saturday Joel and Megan came to visit. We had so much fun! We played a lot of games, ate lots of food, went to Starbucks, ate Jenis and Graeters ice cream and went to see the Fantasy of Lights. All in just 1 1/2 days. We had a blast! Jenna also decided to make Joel beautiful (really, is there any hope for this?). You can see from the picture.

Joel with a beautiful headband
Before Joel and Megan came to visit, my friend Jen came by to give me a Christmas present. This Christmas present was the most AWESOME thing ever!  Check out this clock below. It has really improved my time keeping.
Awesome clock of awesomeness!
77 points on Quiddler today!

2 comments:

DVK said...

I'm glad the insurmountable odds didn't phase Jenna.

Also: that clock is AWESOME!

Cheryl said...

Just trying to find my password, Gina.