Cora's Big Thursday

The sixth graders in our school district get a special arts education - they have a 10-week course in hip hop and break dancing. It culminated in a "dance off," where the kids, divided into teams, went up two teams at a time to dance "against" each other on Thursday

 The kids seemed to either love it or hate it, and Cora was firmly in the "hate it" camp. She was very nervous about having to dance in front of everybody

But, soon enough, it was over. The best part was hearing all the kids in the audience - the whole sixth grade - chanting her name when it was her turn in the center.

I videoed the entire dance-off with Cora's team - it's about five minutes long. But we know several of the kids well - Sophia and Cami, Jake and Cooper - so I didn't want to cut the video up. Cora's part starts around minute 2:30.

After the hip hop, I was at school doing some volunteer work for the foundation, when Cora wandered into the office. Her teacher thought she sounded so bad with her cold that Cora should go home. 

I ended up finishing my work and taking Cora out around lunchtime, so we could see if some Vietnamese pho soup could help her throat. Cora already missed two days of school earlier in the week, and went to the doctor, with this cold.

Thankfully she was feeling well enough later to attend the school's Reflections Gala, where Cora won first prize for her writing piece. Now, she happened to be the only entrant in her age division, but still, Cora will take trophies when they are offered!

The theme was "Heroes Around Me," and Cora wrote about how firefighters are heroes.

Jake came with us, and we all enjoyed seeing all the artwork. We went out and got ice cream afterwards to celebrate.