February 9, 2011

• School ‘Carnival’

  Judah had his school program this morning. It was said to be a ‘carnival’, but there was nothing carnival-esque other than the usual long program of dances, poems and too-quiet individual children reciting whatever it was they were supposed to say. My kid, unfortunately, decided to skip the instructions about what his class was to say and upgraded himself to the grade 1 level by telling us all his name, age, and that he was a boy… all in English. Whew! he is SO smart!! haha.

  The best part of the day, however, was his costume, which i had been somewhat concerned about for the last week or so since he was supposed to come dressed in Asian costume… After searching the internet for inspiration and wondering how i would get him to wear anything like that with a happy attitude i came upon the brilliant!! idea of putting on “Kung Fu Panda” movie and pointing out to him the finer points of costuming. While prepping his will with movie excerpts in order to wear what i would come up with i perused Josh’s closet for something that might look sort of Asian… and came up with this:
  

  when we tried it on two days ago the ladies saw it and laughed out loud in delight. I then hurriedly explained to him that they were laughing because his costume was so great! I was afraid that he would interpret their laughter as directed at him and subsequently declare that he was NOT going to wear this to the school program! Then i told him to go to the guard shack and see if Solo could identify what his costume was. He also laughed. haha. But said Judah to look like someone doing kung fu (yes!). Our next stop was the Canadians next door, to whom i sent Judah to ‘trick or treat’. Haha. He not only got a sucker, but the men graciously identified him as a samurai/Manchurian warrior. So. Voila! No sewing required and he had probably one of the best costumes, according to this rather biased judge.   We were originally going to have Judah wear the hat-basket-lid, which is shaped like a cone, but the ladies declared that they knew of another lady who could make a hat by Wednesday morning and, sure enough, this morning it arrived just on time for us to leave for the fete.
  
  these two photos (above and below) are to show you the size of my ‘easter’ lilies. They’re hard to see against the green background, but they are as high as judah’s shoulders (below) and over his head in the photo above. in the next few days their trumpets will be opening and i’m sure i’ll get a photo of all of them blooming at the same time.

  

  
  This is Judah’s class (some of them). The girls are from pre-k and Judah and the boys are in the equivalent of Kindergarten (here it’s known as Grand Section/ GS). They have a mixed class. That’s their teacher/maitre in the dark and white striped shirt taking a photo. I asked one of the parents of Judah’s classmates from GS where they would be sending their boy next year, since it’s a concern of mine where we’re sending Judah and i was wondering if anyone was considering going to the French Elementary as we are. But the lady i spoke with said that the tuition was too high for her to send her kid there and i suspect that most of the boys in judah’s class will have the same thoughts. alas. so i reckon if we do go to the french school he will be making all new friends again.

  

  

  As you can see if you watch the video, Judah doesnt really know what he’s doing. alas. He really does love to dance, but i reckon he doesnt love as much to follow a set choreography, especially when dancing with a whole entourage of kids who are basically just jumping around. the kind of moves he comes up with on his own after dance class day is quite impressive, however, and i’m proud to say that he wont be growing up with ethnic inhibitions in regards to dancing like his parents did.

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