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Friday, October 31, 2008

Juma's school adventures

Last week, Juma's school had an International Day celebration, where each class, K through 3, performed on stage, highlighting a certain country. Juma's class had Japan, and performed the Coal Miner's Dance; a classmate's mother taught it to them.

Right before the dance, Juma surprised us and played the xylophone in front of the whole school! We didn't know he had such good rhythm--he was perfect.



Sorry the picture is blurry, but it's the best one of the dance: Look for Juma with his Japanese headband and (Sarah's) white shirt. (The kids were told to wear white shirts, and the only one we could find was mine. Then it turned out most of the kids didn't wear white anyway. Oh well.)



Today, the mayor held a Halloween Parade, but made the theme Go Green! Juma's class dressed up in newspaper hats and carried placards with reminders to recycle.





They marched downtown, and his class spontaneously started chanting, Recyle! Recycle!

2 comments:

Ashli said...

I think the go green theme was a great idea. How fun. We're glad to hear that Juma has such skillz on the xylophone.

Matt&Andria said...

very very cute. I'm amazed he has musical talent, maybe it skipped mine and Justin's generation? Now to important stuff-what about Juma's Halloween costume? Don't tell me Connecticut doesn't believe in dressing up!