Despite having strep throat last week, Cameron participated in her grade level talent show at school. Since this was our first year here, we weren't sure what sort of "talent" we were supposed to do. We decided that she could do a poem and we had loads of fun reading Runny Babbit and other Shel Silverstein poems to find an appropriate one. I didn't attend the grade-level show, but she told me that the mom's especially laughed at the right place, at the end. To our surprise, she was chosen among the second grade to perform at the All-School Talent Show.
Okay, I definitely went to this one. And she asked me in advance for some spaghetti to use as a prop. The rest of the acts were primarily girls singing along with music (lots of kareoke machines out there...), piano playing, one dancing duo, one violin (prodigy), several martial art demonstrations, and an older brother/kindy brother duo singing a cowboy song in full regalia that was adorable.
She was #11 out of 21 and just before her turn, she confessed she was really nervous. I think every kid in school was in that cafeteria. It was an appropriate time to be nervous.
I have to tell you that while she is deadpan in the video (nerves? first time using a prop?) she was MUCH more animated and cute doing it at home with the family. I wish she'd been able to remember the facial expressions and hand gestures she had used all last week. But I'm so proud of her for getting out there. She was the only "dramatic reading".
Okay, I definitely went to this one. And she asked me in advance for some spaghetti to use as a prop. The rest of the acts were primarily girls singing along with music (lots of kareoke machines out there...), piano playing, one dancing duo, one violin (prodigy), several martial art demonstrations, and an older brother/kindy brother duo singing a cowboy song in full regalia that was adorable.
She was #11 out of 21 and just before her turn, she confessed she was really nervous. I think every kid in school was in that cafeteria. It was an appropriate time to be nervous.
I have to tell you that while she is deadpan in the video (nerves? first time using a prop?) she was MUCH more animated and cute doing it at home with the family. I wish she'd been able to remember the facial expressions and hand gestures she had used all last week. But I'm so proud of her for getting out there. She was the only "dramatic reading".
Spaghetti, spaghetti, all over the place,
Up to my elbows--up to my face,
Over the carpet and under the chairs,
Into the hammock and wound round the stairs,
Filling the bathtub and covering the desk,
Making the sofa a mad mushy mess.
The party is ruined, I'm terribly worried,
The guests have all left (unless they're all buried).
I told them, "Bring presents." I said, "Throw confetti."
I guess they heard wrong 'Cause they all threw spaghetti!
