Halloween: St. Kitts Style

I celebrated my second Halloween at the prep school last week. We headed to the Ross Vet School campus for trick-or-treating with the vet school students.  There are seven vet school classes, and we hit all the students up for candy.  Even Mr. Brandon (as the kids call him) gave out candy to the kids.  The kids got so much candy and had a lot of fun showing off their costumes.  After trick-or-treating, we headed back to the prep school for some more Halloween fun. They each got their own pumpkin to decorate and Mr. Brandon came in and helped us carve them.  All week long, they practiced a reader’s theatre script called “The Little Old Lady Who Wasn’t Afraid of Anything”. They created their own backdrop and stick puppets and performed for the other classes at the school. The festivities ended with homemade Halloween cupcakes and the lighting of their jack-o-lanterns! 

Katie, Christy, and I dressed as fifties dancers for Halloween.

Brandon handing out candy to the kids!

The jack-o-lantern that Brandon helped carve.  

The backdrop that my class designed and created for their performance. 

Thriller: Prep School Style

The students at the prep school danced to Thriller during morning assembly.  My students even got in on the action, and by the end of the performance EVERYONE was dancing.  Here is video of the FUN! 

THRILLER RUSVM Prep School

Happy Birthday to a Great Granny!

Happy birthday grandma! Thank you for always believing in us and encouraging us to always do our best.  We are so lucky to have you in our lives! We Love You! 

Just for Fun: 

Beauty Lou and the Country Beast!

WOW, what a great experience! Since the students do not have regular theatre classes, The Missoula Children’s Theatre (http://www.mctinc.org) was hired to fly down to St. Kitts to transform our students at Ross Prep School into Broadway actors and actresses. This company travels all over the world teaching and inspiring children about theatre in just four days.  They arrived on Friday and started conducting auditions for the theatre production of “Beauty Lou and the Country Beast.” After casting, they immediately started rehearsals.  My class was also sent to the vet school to sell tickets to the vet school students.  I have quite the little salesmen in my class.  I don’t think that at six and seven years old I would have been able to get up in front of 150 adults on a microphone and give a sales pitch.  They even sang a piece from the show!  The children rehearsed Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday and on Thursday they had a dress rehearsal.  By Thursday afternoon the students were ready to perform two performances, a matinee at 4:00 and an evening performance at 6:00.  They were simply AMAZING! I was one PROUD teacher! I can’t even imagine how their parents must have felt.  Events like this just reiterate the fact that Brandon and I are in a great place! 

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