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Saturday night at the movies...

Saturday night we had an movie night on campus. We bought snacks, applied generously the mosquite spray, and headed to campus to watch the movie Shrek at the outdoor "theater". It sprinkled a good part of the time, so we covered our heads with sheets and blankets, but fortunately it amounted to no more than that or the movie would have been cancelled. There wasn't a large crowd of people there, but I think overall it was a success and the kids had a good time hanging out and watching the movie outdoors with their friends. KR is already asking when they are going to do the next one so obviously she loved it!

KR and her friend keeping the rain off:
KJ and L, her pre-school classmate and friend:

KR and her friends. The three girls on the left are in KL's class and are all staff kids:

Watching from on top of the soccer goal:

Obviously not too excited about having his picture taken...

European Fair

Last Friday KD had a European Fair in his Social Studies class at school. The students had taken several weeks to create their projects in different stages and this was the day they were going to show off what they had accomplished. KD and his partner spent their time learning about Beligium. They created a time line of the country's history, the flag, a map and other interesting facts (Did you know that after the US, Belgians are the most enthusiastic collectors of discount coupons in the world? And that the average person in Belgium consumes up to 22 kg-48 pounds- of chocolate annually?). They also had food (Belgium Waffles) and a model of something found in that country. They chose to make the Atomium seen here (you can read about it here):
And here over KD's right shoulder:

Parents and other classes were invited to attend. It's always fun to see what the kids come up with and the food they make is a tasty treat.

KR filling out her map page during her class visit:

KD and KR enjoying some sibling love: :-)

Chapel

On Thursday KR's class put on the weekly chapel (for grades preschool through 4). They had a cute message to share about Easter and how Christ died for our sins and then rose again. Overall they did a pretty good job despite some of the songs being a little rough! lol! Of course, they were as cute as can be as little rabbits:-)

She had a little duet part with her friend. I missed part of it and the camera kept going in and out of focus. I finally zoomed out a little and that helped, but it still won't stay in focus very well in low light. It's probably unrealistic to expect perfection, but I wish it were a little better. Anyway, I thought I would add it here anyway, for the grandparents! Enjoy!

I thought about adding one more little video from the chapel, but this one took me over half an hour to load and I'm just too tired to wait on another one! So sorry...maybe later!!

NJHS

On Friday KD was inducted into the National Junior Honor Society (NJHS). They had a little ceremony explaining how students are chosen for this honor and then they introduced the new inductees. We are so proud of our middle son (even if he had not gotten this award we would still be proud of him. He's one special boy.). He was surprised he had gotten inducted this year as he didn't think he would. Even though this will not go on his official transcript (as far as future colleges are concerned), it's still a great honor and he will always have his named engraved on a plaque in the Dalat School office! lol!

Here is KD signing the book after the ceremony.

All the new inductees had the chance to light a candle.

Here are all the 7th grade inductees (out of about 40 students).

KD with his best friend, who also got inducted.

These pictures were taken with my new camera and I must say that in low light (on automatic setting) I don't think it does any better than my old one. I will have to work on learning how to adjust for the low light etc...so that perhaps I can take better pictures in the future.

Lunch time conversation...

Today KJ had her friend, K, over after school. We were sitting enjoying our lunch when her friend (age 5) used a word that I find a little crude so I mentioned to her that it was probably not the nicest word to use to describe the situation she was talking about (she had apparently heard it on a video on the computer at home but I don't think was aware how bad it sounded).

KJ pipes up: "Hey, K, did you know that 'square words' are bad words?"

She then turned to me and asked, "But, mommy, are circle words and triangle words okay?"

I about fell out of my chair laughing. Of course, I had to assure her that circle and triangle words were fine and that really "square words" are just as okay to use as triangle and circle words. Isn't that just too cute?

I just had to share it here before I forget it :-)