Rise and Shine

The kids' new school does "Rise and Shine" every Friday morning.  The whole school is ushered into the cafeteria where each week a different class gives information to them about something 'academic'.  Claire's class was the first to tackle this task; reporting on the Western region of the US (The rest of the fourth grade classes will do the other regions).  Claire was the only child with two separate speaking parts.  She told me it was because "Mr. Engle said I was a good student and not afraid to speak up in front of an audience.  He told me he could tell I was a performer".  (Mommy thinks Mr. Engle can pick up pretty quickly on the obvious personality traits of his students...haha!)  Well, they did a fabulous job, Claire had a little bumble but recovered during one of her speaking parts, and then they sang a song while the teacher played the guitar.  It was so cool!  The vice principal gets the kids fired up and they do special cheers after the presentation to celebrate the class' hard work.  A great way to get all the students connected and learn a little bit in the process.