Character Matters

Wednesday was a big day for Violet - she had her class end-of-year party mid-morning, and then performed in a first-grade musical in the afternoon.

Part of the party included the students creating their own "trail mix" out of various ingredients like cereals, mini marshmallows, cranberries and chocolate chips.

Violet's holding her dragon, who came along for the fun. She turned in her "Bee Badges," earned for good behavior, for a "Bring a Stuffed Animal Pass." Better use those passes up, the school year's about over!












The children made different crafty creations during the party - Violet chose to fashion her toilet paper tubes into an elephant, and she made a cube from the straws and pipe cleaners.

In the afternoon, Violet and a couple of other first-graders from Mrs. Hawthorne's class joined Mrs. Judge's first-grade class for their performance of Character Matters.

Violet went to Mrs. Judge's class all year after lunch for math, one of the results of being in a split K/1 class. It worked out very well, and she really enjoyed her time with Mrs. Judge.

The musical used fairy tales and humor to teach character and values. Here, Violet is playing the part of Humpty Dumpty's friend.

She also played one of three princesses who encounter the Frog Prince.






















A recurring line through the show is about the characters' desire for donuts, so donuts were provided as the post-show snack for the parents and performers.

Cora came over to watch Violet's show, and she had a good vantage point to film some of it. Here is a snippet of Violet's part in the musical.