Mama Mia

Seth had a great teacher in 3rd Grade.  Mrs. Loeb required a lot from the kids but made learning fun and they love her.  Seth decided to take violin from the school music teacher this year with Kelly and Matthew and group of about 15 third graders.  He did really well and luckily it came relatively easy to him.  Who would have known!  In November his class got to put on a fun play, "Turkeys on Strike".  In the spring the kids had to research a famous person and do a report and a small write up they would present dressed as that person to all the parents.  They call it the Biography Bash and Seth chose Roberto Clemente.  He did a great job, and I was so happy one of our friends had been Roberto the year before! Made it very easy to find his costume :)  Seth also won the pinewood derby this year!  He and his dad worked very hard and made a very cool car!  The end of school party for the 3rd grade was Survivor theme.  They had to break into groups, decorate themselves and try to survive! This has been a great year!

The 8th graders put on a Science Fair.  Paige and her friend Natalie chose to make dry ice bubbles.  I love the science teacher, who unfortunately decided to retire this year after 40 yrs of teaching.  When describing the project to the parents at back to school night, he told us the kids would pick something fun to analyze and that there would be NO help from parents.  Teachers can tell you know :)  Paige and her friend Natalie chose to do dry ice bubbles.  They had a lot of fun and so did we.  Above are the pictures from start to finish of the bubble, the last one just as it popped.

We have made a tradition of going to the beach during Labor Day weekend.  This year it wasn't suppose to be as hot, but still sunny.  Unfortunately it was so windy that it was almost unbearable :)  We put the umbrella to the wind and tried to hide behind it, and as you can see in the picture, Paige rolled up in the beach blanket and never came out.  The week before Seth found a skim board buried in the sand, so he was anxious to try it out, but it takes quite a bit of practice.  We were sad that the day was so harsh, so we packed it up after about an hour and went home to swim in the pool.  The ocean water never really did warm up this year, so away go the beach toys until next year.