Cora's VIP Week(s)

 Cora loved being the VIP of her class these past two weeks. She was able to go to the front of all the lines, help out in class often, and tell the class a lot about herself.

First off, she presented her VIP video, an eight-minute film about herself that Stace put together for her. They filmed it over a couple of weeks, and it is fantastic, something we will treasure for years to come.

Cora picked Auntie Mel to be her "Royal Reader," and Melanie, with her acting and vocal training, did a great job. She read two books, a story about a family with a much-loved kitty, and a Valentine's story.








Cora also brought in several things to show and tell, including the ammonite fossil that Pop found years ago and gave to Cora.

 Children can also have a special grownup in their lives come in to lead the class in an activity. For us, that meant Daddy came in to do 45 minutes of soccer training.

This was by far the youngest group Stace has ever lead in drills, but he did a very good job.





 After several drills, he had fun playing a 60-second game of "everyone try to get the ball away from Mr. Howard." And no, no first-grader was able to take the ball off of him.

One of the nicest parts of being VIP is having the class call out descriptive words and phrases about the student. Then, the children write out sentences about the student, formed from the information on the poster.

It's nice to read all the pleasant adjectives - the ones with asterisks are the ones called out more than once. Cora tells me that one boy called her "hot," which Mrs. Vasquez switched to "beautiful." Interesting...