Well today was the day of the big Talent Show and it was AWESOME! Okay, the most hectic day of the school year for me trying to get it all put together, but I loved it and was so proud of all the kids who got up on stage and rocked the show. My hip hop and ballet dance classes performed (I was so excited for them to show off the dances we've been working so hard on!) and I directed the grand finale too which was a Pretty Eagle version of "Glad You Came"... so fun. (In Crow, "Iitchik Daloom" means "it's good that you came"... so I thought it fit the song too perfectly. I changed the rest of the words to be about Pretty Eagle and had about 40 kids up there singing it. It was a hit!) :)
In between we had two of my best 4th graders Terrel & Colton each performing a hand drum song (awesome); a banjo rendition of "You Are My Sunshine" by Sarah & a bunch of adorable off-tempo & out-of-tune 2nd graders; and a crowd favorite, science teacher Mr. Joyce on the blues guitar singing an original "Bad Day at School" blues tune that he put together real quick, accompanied by a group of 8th grade boys in hawaiian hats and shades comically playing back-up on cigar-box guitars they had made in science class. They were hilarious in a Marx-brothers-esque improvised goofiness up on stage... it was too great.
It ended up being an hour-long show; I was so glad so many kids participated! It was truly an awesome show... I am so impressed with all the kids. We certainly have a lot of superstars at Pretty Eagle.
I was running around all morning trying to get everything together for the show (I was the only one putting it on) and didn't know how I'd get it all done in time... when I walked into the gym and my fairy-godmother 4th graders had every chair set up, the junk-strewn stage completely cleared off, and a big beautiful sign in the works. They were the best! We rehearsed for the rest of the day and got everything together before the gym filled with families at 2:30.
I couldn't have asked for better kids to work with. They were far from angels, and maybe gave me a headache at times, but we had so much fun together and they did totally awesome. Even my M.C.'s, they had been out on a field trip during our morning rehearsal, so they literally didn't know what was going on or what they had to do until they were on stage and I handed them the mic. A lot of kids would've been like "Uhh, what am I supposed to do?! What do I say next?!" but they just stepped up and did such a good job right away that I didn't have to worry about them for the rest of the show... and they even managed to improvise some humor to entertain the crowd. They jumped right in to help whoever was on stage with whatever they needed.. they really just made it a million times easier for me not to have to worry about that stuff. I'm just gushing now but these kids were seriously awesome.
I think I was sprinting every 30 seconds for the entire school day... making programs, setting up, scrounging costumes, gathering kids, rehearsing... but it was worth it to see the show come together so well. When it was over I was in that state of shock when you're going-going-going, or when there's a huge build up to something, and then it's just over and you don't know what to do with yourself. I was in awe of how good the kids were, relieved that it all came together, and filled with joy & pride. Everyone kept saying how great the show was and it just was so much fun. Yay, Pretty Eagle!
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