End of Year Awards, Competitions and Dances

Violet was involved in a lot this year, but one of the biggest events was Battle of the Books. She had to read 20 different books and answer questions regarding them. She started in September and read all 20 over the next few months, and multiple times. She was the only one on her team that read more than 3 books, so she really carried her team through these competitions. She spent many lunch recesses inside the library practicing with the librarians while the rest of her team wanted to play outside. 

First they had their class competition, then the 3rd grade competition, then then 3rd/4th grade competition, followed by the students vs faculty, and then, FINALLY, district level. They placed 3rd in the district, out of 13 schools. We were so proud of her! But she was VERY glad to be done. But she's already read the next 20 books for this next year so here we go again...

Violet and Ginger also had their spring ice skating competition and they did great! Ginger placed 1st in her age and Violet 3rd. I wish it wasn't so hard to get good photos of them on the ice.

We had our spring piano recital which the kids did well at...

 Ginger got a reward for reading the most out of the kindergarteners...

Of course Violet read the most of the 1-3rd grades...

And she had her final Chinese yo-yo performance. Although it was difficult, I'm glad she stuck with it all year. She learned lots of cool tricks!

Of course we ended the school year with the school dances! I was pleasantly surprised to see Jaxon really getting into his dance. Believe it or not, it's the first time I've actually seen him dance. He despises dancing.

Violet's grade did a traditional Filipino dance. 

And Ginger's class did a Troll dance.