Gingerbread House

The kids always enjoying making a gingerbread house.  I really do think they eat as much candy as they put on the house.

 

 

Christmas Performances 2013

Each of the kids were in a performance with their class for Christmas.  I apologize for the quality of these videos.  They are a bit blurry if you try and watch them full-screen, especially when I tried to zoom in.  It's also hard to hear what they are saying, especially Julia's class, but it's still fun to watch. :)

Kindergarten Class

Julia's right in the middle.

1st/2nd Grade

Johanna was chosen to be Mary so she's right in the middle, too.

5th/6th Grade

Grant comes in at about the 52 second mark.  He is wearing a shepherd's costume, which he wasn't very happy about because he was the only his teacher made dress up. He says his lines, and then has another really short line at the end.

I will hopefully have some better quality videos next year!

Picture with Santa 2013

Chicken Tractor

Throughout the year, Cory and some friends, built a chicken tractor to use with our chickens Spring through Fall.  They finished in December 2013, so it was ready to use the following Spring.

This is how it started. 

This is the back, where we refill the water tank, and feed tube.

 

We used wood from this old shed on the outside of the tractor, and painted it a nice, bright, barn red.

 

What a beauty!

Thanksgiving 2013

Once again, we had a wonderful Thanksgiving as we celebrated the day at home with our family.

The kids wrote on these turkey feathers what they were thankful for, and we hung them up on the window.

They also drew some Thanksgiving artwork for our walls.

Julia 

Johanna

 Grant

I also used the turkeys they had made for the school Thanksgiving lunch and used them as part of the centerpieces.

I also hung up the girl Indian that Julia made as part of a Thanksgiving craft that I did with her Kindergarten class.  She also made a pilgrim, but that was hanging up at the school.

Johanna helped me with the place cards this year, and wrote everyone's names on them.
 

The kids also got in a quick game of "pin the hat on the turkey" before going to bed.

Thanksgiving Play and Lunch

On November 27, the school hosted a Thanksgiving lunch for families.  Johanna's class also put on a Thanksgiving play.

Grandma and Grandpa were able to make it to the festivities.

The elementary art classes made these centerpieces.

Johanna was a turkey for her play.

A Peak Inside Dance Class

On November 11, the parents got to take a sneak peak at what the girls had been doing in dance class.

Look at little Julia over there talking. Would never have imagined that.

Spirit Week and Homecoming 2013

In mid-November, the kid's school had Spirit Week and Homecoming.  Each day of the week had a dress-up theme.

Nerd Day

Day of Ages (Grant's from the future, and then obviously Julia's from the 20's and Johanna's from the pioneer days.)

Duck Dynasty/Camouflage Day (I honestly cannot remember why I didn't take a picture with Julia in it.  I don't think she had on much camo.)

The last two days were spirit day, where the kids wore shirts with the school logo, beads and fun face stickers, and finally, pajama day.

Each class put together a shopping cart "float", and there was a parade with these down the hall on Friday before the Homecoming assembly.

I helped Johanna's 1st/2nd grade class with their float. The opposing team were called the "blockbusters", so that's the theme we had to work with for the carts.  Here's our finished product:

You could pull a rope in the back, and all the blocks on the top would fly off, along with streamers and confetti, and a picture of an eagle would pop out. Our cart actually won the top prize of Grand Champion, but there was some controversy because the carts weren't supposed to have moving parts.  I didn't know that at the time we were putting it together. Oops...

 The all-school assembly

Here's when our float was announced as the Grand Champion.

Announcing of the JV basketball players.

Grant and Johanna's class were tied for the most spirited class, so they had to do a "cheer off."  Each class had to come up with a cheer to perform at the assembly.  Grant's class was picked as the winner.
 

Here are the rest of the carts:

 

 Kindergarten (Julia's class)

3rd/4th grade

5th/6th grade (Grant's class)

7th/8th grade

It was a fun week, and all the classes did a great job with their carts!