PRISM Concert

Tyler has learned the violin this year. It is a class he stays after school for twice a week. He had his last concert last week. They combined with the other elementary school orchestra classes, the middle school, and the high school orchestras. They took turns, rotating which class was playing, until the very last song when they all played the same song together. The elementary students had actually left the stage and when it was time for them to play, they walked up the aisles repeating the same few measures of the song until everyone was back in their seats, and then they finished the song. It turned out really cool.

Tyler's favorite song, at the end they all yelled "Hey!"

Tyler is in the middle, very back row. This was probably a third of the students they had on the stage.

A little blurry, but a close up of Tyler.

Spare Me

Last week we went bowling.
I will spare you the details of how bad of a game I had. (Being 38 weeks pregnant throws off ones balance and does not make one graceful by any means.)
I think it might have been Tyler's first time without using the bumpers. He had big improvements to his game as the frames progressed.
Lee broke his ribs a few weeks ago playing Dodge Ball with the Elders Quorum, so he had an interesting game too.
We all had fun!

Hot Enough for Snow!

We had a Saturday a few weeks ago that got pretty hot. Lots of kids were playing outside and Lee decided it was hot enough to make snow cones! Yummy!! I can tell this will happen a lot this summer.

Who said life isn't FAIR?

We had our last Book Fair for the school year in April. Which means I'm officially done being in charge of the Book Fairs. (I'll help next year, but I'll pass on the main responsibility!) We were pretty steady all week, so it seemed to go fast. (The picture was taken while the fair wasn't open.)

The Buy One, Get One Free Book Fair always keeps us busy.

Drop, Cover, and Hold On! We participated in the Great Utah ShakeOut! It was a state-wide earthquake drill. (I got the school to sign up too.) We were at the school during the drill, so we got under the table for one minute, and then evacuated like a fire drill.

Under the table at the Book Fair.

That same week was the Science Fair. Woodruff had 181 participants! That's a lot of projects. Andrew choose to feed 12 different ingredients to some flowers. We took pictures of the plants each day to monitor the progress. The first plant (that was fed vinegar) died overnight, so we had results to document immediately. Along with some other things, he learned that feeding a plant milk makes it stink, that power aid survived for quite awhile, bleach and window cleaner died pretty quickly, and that water is the best for plants.

Andrew showing off his display.

Tyler was assigned a partner in class and worked on his project both at school and after school. Toby and Tyler decided to see what brand of bubble gum could make the biggest bubble. Tyler got the job of measuring Toby's bubbles, since he can't chew gum with his braces. They found out that when Toby has one piece of all the brands of gum in his mouth at the same time, he could make the biggest bubble. (Isn't that funny?)

Toby and Tyler showing off their display.

Next year's PTA Board had a Convention at the end of April too. (Yes, I threw things off by having my due date fall the same time as the Utah PTA Convention in Provo. So we made our own training and retreat.) We had a great turn out and had a lot of fun as well as setting up the calendar for next school year's PTA events. I'm excited to work with my new board next year, I think we will have a great year! We have some fun stuff planned and a lot of willing volunteers! I just need my boys to stop quoting the book Diary of a Wimpy Kid. "My mom is the President of the PTA, and she can ruin your life!"