End of the School-Year
This past week has been Anna’s last week at school. On Monday we’re supposed to show up to fetch her report-card, and then she’s off to at least a month of aftercare before we begin our month-long-ish summer vacation in July. To celebrate the end of school, two big events were planned. The first one was this past Tuesday morning, where all the parents of the kids in class gathered into the school-auditorium and saw the kids sing, give a power-point presentation (!!!) and act out three plays. The second part was today (Friday) where the entire morning was fun and games, then some hot-dogs, then a small concert plus ice-cream.
Part of the new building that they built next to the old main building to house all the kids Melaskóli needs to house.
Good usage of a huge space. Kids from one class had hung a giant Sun complete with (I forgot to count how many) planet. Saturn's rings were made out of plastic straws. 🙂
Hello my old auditorium. We meet again! 🙂
Kids plus instructor. I decided not to bring my flash for this event, and regretted it immediately!
There was some lovely singing...
Then it was time to present what they'd learnt about birds. Pairs of kids came up to the stage at a time, and read the slide text (that they had presumably dictated to the teacher) for each bird. Here it's Anna's turn to speak into the microphone. Some of the parents rolled their eyes jokingly after the event and were bemused that the kids were already being trained to give slide-show presentations.
Image that Anna drew (presumably on a computer).
Anna played Goldilocks in "Goldilocks and the three bears". She only had three short lines, but acted out what the storytellers read into the microphone.
Discovered by the three bears, and attempting to make her escape, except her headband fell off... 🙂
With the crown she made for the occastion. I think she looks quite a bit like me in this picture...
Everybody starts crowding around the food-table.
We utterly failed to remember to bring anything, but it was ok because other parents did their duty.
Kiddos eating on stage-steps, and time to go.
An unrelated exercise in terror. Bjarki goes for the camera unassisted and snaps off quite a few pics. That could have ended badly!
Today, the whole school went into full-on celebratory-mode. They had fun and games, and hot dogs, and ice-cream and an entertainer who sang songs about hitching up and wanting to bed someone. Very Icelandic. The kids knew all his lyrics and had a blast. Oh, they're such innocent little sheep!!
