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This was from a Valentine's Day project the school did.  The teachers were able to use this project to showcase the kids various mathematical skills.  It was really quite impressive all the graphing, predicting, arithmatic, and money skills they used.  I love this school!

Party in the USA Dance

Marion and the girls in her class wanted to do a dance to "Party in the USA" by Miley Cirus.  After they made up a few moves they wanted to use, I helped them choreograph the rest and Mike spliced the song so it wasn't too long.  It was really fun to watch!  Oh ya, and Eden became a part of it as well, since we did all the rehearsals at our house.

Emma's Talent Show Performance

Emma was the only Pre-k child to enter the talent show and she did such a great job!  We were so proud of her.  She called that dress her "popcorn dress", and was very excited to wear it for the show!

Circus Skits

At the beginning of January, Marion and Eden started an activity at school called Circus Troupe.  They stayed after school every Tuesday and learned how to juggle, spin plates on sticks, balance, human pyramids, and many other acrobatic feats.  They also did "circus skits" which were very cute and fun.  Here are the two skits that Eden and Marion did.

I couldn't get a good shot of Eden when she came running off the stage and into the audience but she came over to me and picked a flea off of my head.

Dallin's Talent Show Performance

The "Ode to Joy" Blues.  They had a problem with the extension cord at the beginning so he had to wait on stage while they sorted out the technical difficulty and got his amplifier working.  He was a real trooper though, and then gave a pretty darn good performance!

Eden's Talent Show Performance

Watch out Taylor Swift...cause these girls are "Mean"!

Triathlon

The PE program at ISR is really something.  During the second quarter of the school year, the kids all trained for a triathlon during PE every day.  They practised biking, running, and swimming.  Then, on December 2nd they all participated in the actual triathlon.  The distances were different for each age bracket.     It was really exciting and super fun watching them push themselves and hearing everyone cheer for one another.  The kids were exhausted but felt really great about what they had accomplished in the end.

 Eden's age group swam 50 m, biked 4 km, and ran 1/4 mile.

Eden's handle bars came loose while she was biking, so when she went over a speed bump, suddenly her handle bars had fallen forward so she had to really lean over to finish her bike race.  She was such a trooper, she just kept going!

Cross that finish line... Well done Eden!

Dallin's group swam 100 m, biked 8 km, and ran 1/2 mile.



Transition from the swim to the bike.

We caught Dallin half-way through his biking to cheer him on!

He did it!!

We're #1 Triathlon Champions!

Swim Meet

This was the first swim meet Dallin and Eden have ever participated in and it was so much fun! One of the blessings of being such a small community is that everyone places! So even the worst swimmers got ribbons in their heat because there were sometimes only 3 kids in that age group doing that particular stroke. It was a real confidence booster for many. Mike was MC for the meet and Emma and her friend Samantha below were just two of many young siblings cheering on their older siblings. After the meet had ended, they did a couple silly relays with the adults. Rolling a watermelon from one end of the pool to the other without using your hands, and swimming across the pool with a shirt on then switching it to the next team mate. It was hysterical!

The View

The lighting is kind of weird on the second photo, but the first is a picture of Marion riding toward our front yard, so this is a view of the neighbors yard, and the second photo is our backyard, which is really as green and bright as the first photo but just came out strange.

Park Play

This is an average day playing at our neighborhood park. We can't usually spend more than 30 minutes out there, it just gets way too hot and uncomfortable. Just look at Eden and Emma's faces, they are so red!