7th Grade Assembly

OK, so now I am totally within striking distance. I am blogging about our assembly just LAST Friday. Yes, less than one week ago. :) I know I say this every time, but I really am going to do my best to stay on top of my blog after this! ha ha. I just had my master's class for two weeks and then we ran into finals, which meant getting all grades completed, writing the final exam, and then grading all 100 of the tests. So anyway, last week was the end of trimester 2. That means that I am 2/3 of my way through my first year here in Guate. Kind of weird to think about. So for the end of the second trimester, we had a little assembly to celebrate. Somehow I got put in charge of it with one of the other teachers who was going to be gone that day. :) We got it all organized and planned out. We decided that we would give away some awards to kids in each section for their hard work, have a slideshow of pictures, and let some of the kids showcase their talents. We have some really talented kids in our school and it's fun to see them in their element rather than only in math class. So I am happy to say that it went off pretty well. I did a powerpoint for the entire assembly so I took pictures of all the kids and put them up on the screen when it was their turn to perform. (I apologize for the quality of pictures, I had a student taking them!!!)

One of my favorites was this group of boys. Three of them played guitars while three of them sang the song. They were so cute!

Here they are warming up.

Our flexible gymnasts!!!

I turned around and saw this girl snapping all these pictures of me. I ended up with about ten of them similar to this but most of them I am not turned around! I also had about ten pictures of the floor and seats in the auditorium. (And yes, every Friday is jeans day at our school!!!)

This was one of my two favorite acts that went. Joseph was playing in the band with the other boys but then he asked if he could do his own song as well. He rocked the house man!!!! (There is a video of him at the end of this post!!)

This picture is really dark, but I had to mention this kid. He is one of my biggest class clowns and he asked if he could play the piano. I had a big talk with him and said, you better be taking this seriously, you better not get up there and act like a clown, etc. He assured me he was serious. WOW. He got up there and rocked the house to some Beethoven. It was awesome. I was so proud of him.

Boy band! :)

Giving out awards for participation. Not sure what happened to my head in this picture!

Joseph playing and singing. He's so cute and did an awesome job!