Our Classical Conversations fall semester has been over for a month now, but I feel it would be remiss of me if I didn't post a little bit about the "variety show."
Background: CC South Asheville (the co-op group we did last year) had reached capacity, with about eight families on the waiting list. They decided to start another South Asheville group which would meet three minutes from our house (as opposed to 15 minutes like the other one). There were probably six families from our church with us in the original group, and I felt like we needed to branch out and meet some new families - albeit, still mainly Christian homeschoolers...not too stretching, I guess.
The new group is much smaller. Owen is in the 5-7 year old class (pictured above, minus one kid) and as you can guess, he loves it. It's been nice getting to know a new group of people and Owen had no problem making the switch, though some of his best buds were in the other group. We still see those guys at least once a week between church and our fellowship group, so I knew the friendships would hold strong.
I am so glad that Cae is such a trooper when it comes to CC. It is particularly helpful as Esmé is less obliging. Some babies just hate missing their morning nap
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| Our little corner that I claimed each week and tried to keep Esmé from scooting out of. |
Now on to the good stuff. To celebrate the end of the semester, the
director organized a potluck and show for the kids to participate in.
Anyone could do anything they wanted to do...on a stage...with a
microphone. You can imagine how that went. Let me give you one
example: Owen. He played "Mary Had a Little Lamb" on his tin whistle,
with Zach and Es holding the music for him. It was short, sweet, and
appropriate, as they had been learning how to play the tin whistle during Music. After
he finished, he grabbed the mic and yelled, "Yeahhhhhhhhh! Woooooooh!"
This shouldn't have surprised me as Owen was MCing during the
rehearsal: "Next up, we have Hope singing a song from Frozen. IN
COSTUME!!!" No fear of stage fright for this kid. We've signed him up
for drama classes this January because hey, we're homeschoolers. That's
the kind of stuff we do. And he is going to love it.
The group of younger kids then sang America the Beautiful and the President's Song, both of which Caelum participated in, loudly and clearly. My kids placed themselves front and center. We're a shy bunch, we are. The video clip isn't uploading, but consider yourself spared.
