A Thanksgiving Performance and Play

So, here are some of the pictures of the festivities over the last week or so. The ones of the girls are of them at pre-school doing a little play about Pilgrims and Indians. Rachel is dressed up as the Indian and Juliana is the Pilgrim. They had a ti pi as well, which the girls informed me that was where the Indians lived and slept. The other picture is of them in their paper bonnets like I mentioned the other day. Juliana's ripped pretty much as soon as we got home, thank goodness for tape. When you have kids you seem to go through a lot of it. The other pictures are of Joseph singing in the Timberline choir. The choir is opened to all kids in 4th and 5th grade. He has joined and had a couple of performances last week. The first performance was at the gym in Timberline and the second one was at Barns and Noble night at Southlands. The PTO was doing a fundraiser there at the store and the choir performed. The program was titled "Journey to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad." They sang 6 songs based around the history of the Underground Railroad. The songs were written by a woman whose relatives survived the railroad. You can see hanging in the background a large quilt that their music teacher made with all the different types of symbols that they used to communicate clues to the runaway slaves. The kids had speaking parts that gave the story of each symbol. It was a great night, very historic and informative. Joseph did great (of course). As we were walking into the gym that night he was pointing to the stars and said: "Look mom, look there is the drinking gourd that the slaves used to call the big dipper, they used it as a clue in quilts. That is how they found their way when they were traveling at night." Needless to say I was impressed, I said that is right and then ten minuets later he was singing about it. It was a great learning process for him, I felt he got a lot out of it.

Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving.