Upcoming Events - Vista Musical

Vista's musical is in the works. The kids have been excitedly practicing their lines and songs. I wanted to share some details with you.
1. All Vista students participate in the musical. This year's musical entitled How Does Your Garden Grow will be performed on May 28th. We will have a performance during the school day at around 1:00 and another performance in the evening at 6:30.
2. The performances will be held in the Allen Brook gym. Students are asked to come to their classrooms at 6:15 on the night of the performance.
3. We try to keep our costumes fun and relatively simple. Some of the costume elements will be purchased by the team, some borrowed, and some created. For our class, the children playing bunnies will be wearing white, those playing frogs will be wearing green, those playing butterflies will wear a color that will coordinate with their wings, and those playing flowers will wear green. T-shirts (turned inside out) work great. If your child does not have the color he/she needs and can't borrow something, let me know and we can make a workable plan.
4. Last week, lyrics for the songs were sent home in Monday folders. Today, I sent home a copy of each child's lines. Our class will be performing Scene 2 and will also participate in singing throughout the production. Please feel free to help your child practice lines (although most kids are pretty set) and song lyrics at home.

What's New?!

We have finally wrapped up our units on Mexico and Italy. In addition to the Festa Fiesta pictured in the slideshow in the next post, there were many other exciting elements of these units. While we were studying Mexico, each child made a "codex" documenting through pictures the things that we learned about. Other highlights included a presentation by Karla, the au pair of the Crookes Family, and a presentation by Tommy and Beckett from Ms. Rogers' class. Karla is from Mexico and was able to share first hand information with the kids in addition to teaching them some songs and words in Spanish. Tommy and Beckett did a fantastic job sharing a PowerPoint that they had created about Mexico. We all really learned a lot about these two cultures. Our current unit which is already underway is on plants.

Festa Fiesta

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Before the break we had a wonderful celebration as a culmination to our studies of Italy and Mexico. We called it the Festa Fiesta (Festa = party in Italian and Fiesta = party in Spanish). The kids and adults enjoyed sampling some foods from each country. Special thanks goes out to JoAnn Mogielnicki for helping the day of the party and bringing tortellini and sauce. I'd also like to thank the following other families for contributing supplies to the celebration: the Crookes Family, the Wickart/Clarks, the Knudsons, the Martins, the Scheers, and the Kolibas Family. What a fun way to end our studies of these two contrasting cultures!