Somehow in the birthday/spring break madness, I forgot Ava's big show. There are a lot of things about our school here that I'm not crazy about, but there are some things that are really fantastic, where it all comes together in the best way. Our 2nd graders study balance and motion in science and work during their gym and music classes on circus acts involving balance and motion. The activities seem simple, but are fundamentally important in physical development. They perform for the whole elementary school and then again in the evening for families. As adults we forget how nervewracking something that like is--they were all so nervous and everyone was brilliant. Really--every. single. person. was a star. Whether they spun plates or balanced feathers or jumped rope or walked on stilts...every child was so proud of their accomplishments and so proud to perform. And in a school where everything seems to revolve around academics, this is an important opportunity for kids to turn it on.
The beginning of the show was a Rube Goldberg-esque human alarm clark to wake up the teachers and start the show. Ava jumped onto a mini-tramp and onto a pyramid as her part. She was one of the featured cartwheelers and spun a plate on a stick. Her big moment, though, was walking on a roller. Each class is assigned a skill to practice and this wasn't easy, especially since it wasn't something that she could practice at home. She loved being able to do it with her friend Cora!
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