The kids had their annual International Fiesta on Friday afternoon. This is our fourth fiesta, and they keep getting better every year! Each class performs a song and/or dance, and then the whole school family feasts on amazing food provided by the teachers, from their native countries.
This year Evelyn's class (the Sapitos) did a parade of nations, including the countries in North and South America. Evelyn represented Argentina. The kids were supposed to wear pants/skirts to match their flags. so it was time for me to make a light blue circle skirt. Evelyn was very interested in sewing with me.
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| Wondering why we don't just go to Cinderella's castle already. |
They started the show off with a traditional dance performed by a couple of the teachers. It was the story of a man wooing a woman. Spicy!
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| The first performance of the Fiesta. |
Gideon's class, the Buhitos, performed "La Piragua" and he was pretty content to just take it all in.
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| The plight of the small one, hidden behind the tall girls. |
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| Dispersing after the song. His first priority was to take off the fedora. |
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| La Piragua |
When the older kids are singing, teachers usually walk around with the mic and hold it up to each kid in turn. I'm sure you won't be surprised to know that Evelyn was taking the whole thing VERY seriously.
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| Jonathan tells me there's a subreddit for this kind of picture. I can't stop laughing. |
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| Letting her flag fly. |
We were quite proud of the kidlets. I can't believe that next year will be Evelyn's last fiesta! We hung out for quite a while after the show, eating and dancing to some ridiculously loud music, and letting the wee ones participate in the dismantling of the balloon props. (Evelyn, AKA Captain Planet these days, spent a long time picking up every single scrap of popped balloon from the floor of the gym and putting them in my purse to throw away "so we don't hurt the planet earth").
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| Evelyn with one of her teachers, Ms. Artemiza |
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| And her other teacher, Ms. Amparo |
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| Some of the teachers hanging out after the show. |
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| Gideon with one of his teachers, Ms. Gloria |
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| Teachers dancing for each other after the show (the two in white were Gideon's teachers when he was in the wee little baby room - las Abejitas) |
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| Gideon and Ms. Patricia (Ms. Patty) |
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| Darcy and Evelyn, dancing gangam style. |
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