Today was a big day. We went bike riding this afternoon. Margaret and Sam at least. We ended up at the civic center riding around the fountain. We got a little video of Margaret. She is getting better and better. She still has a little trouble starting off, but it is coming. She wants this for her birthday. Sam is pretty much fearless on his tricycle. Hopefully, we will get him on the tag-along soon as well as a bike with training wheels.
At Van Meter today it was a very musical day. With concerts on the hour most of the day. The kindergarten classes went a little while after the violin episode. Margaret is the one in the second row behind the boy in the yellow shirt – who is worth watching. Notice she still has on the crown from her birthday celebration at school today. Here is the video.
Today at Margaret’s school the celebrated her birthday which will be on Sunday. They did it today because they have school off next week and tomorrow they will celebrate Valentine’s day. She got to wear a crown today as the birthday girl. Here is some video of the kids saying what they like about Margaret.
Katy had her violin recital today. Just imagine 60 fourth graders all playing the violin at the same time and it will be like you were there. You can watch each of the songs being performed. Or you can close your eyes and think of a swarm of bees to get the same audio effect. The interesting thing about the music class is that they don’t get much time actually playing the intruments. Most of the time seems to be spent learning how to hold things. The instruments also stay at school and all the work is done there. The kids don’t bring the instruments home to practice.