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May was a busy month! Serenity especially had a lot going on. She performed Flounder in the Little Mermaid with her musical theater class twice! She did such an amazing job! You could hear every line she spoke clearly, which was a definite challenge in the warehouse they were performing in. You could even hear her adorable little stage whisper when Flounder is asking Ariel about sharks. She learned her lines well, and even remembered to act when it wasn't her turn to talk. We talked about it some, because of an incident at the dress rehearsal. Since Flounder is Ariel's best friend, she's often on stage with her. When Ariel was singing "Part of Your World" for the first time in her costume, Flounder was right next to her, with her mouth wide open, trying to eat the long red hair from the wig!!! It was hilarious! She also kept trying to pick scales off of costumes, or feathers... At any rate, she didn't do it during the real performance, which was a heroic example of self control for my baby that just loves to fiddle with things. It was wonderful! She says she wants to take musical theater class again, and when Eric suggested that she could put on plays for friends and family, she said, "But I want a BIG audience!"
The end of the year activities at school were wonderful too! Serenity got a Dynamite award from Mrs. Widdoes for excellence in geography. And she got a StarBurst award for being an excellent and dynamic reader. She got a Kumon award for math. And the class did their Sails Skit about the time periods, so she got to share her Queen Elizabeth lines again. Her spring concert was fun too, especially the Crescendo song. She and her classmates really got into that, throwing their whole bodies into it when the song reached the loudest part of crescendo and decrescendo!
We also had our end of the year banquet for Daisies, which was bittersweet for me. We had an awesome, amazing year with her Daisy Troop, but the other USchool moms and I decided that since the troop had gotten so large, and since several other girls in the class had asked about joining, that we should start our own troop next year. I will be the troop leader, and I'm very excited about it, but we will definitely miss Harper and Ms Jennifer! The banquet itself was fun, with a mini-museum of all the amazing things the girls did this year. The list is incredible, including earning all their Daisy Petals, donating money to the Child Abuse Network and participating in the SuperHero Challenge, our first cookie sales, a cookie tasting event, making gift bags for a women's shelter, gardening at Eisenhower Elementary School. Just writing it out I can hardly believe that six year olds did all this!
