Community Education Classes

This week, the girls are taking classes as part of our town's community education.  Julia's class is "Travel the World," and not only did she get to eat Nutella crepes on her first day, but she has come home with a slew of crafts: a toothpick Eiffel Tower, a Chinese paper lantern, and a set of wooden Russian dolls that she decorated herself.

Madeleine is taking a class called "Disney Week," and her crafts and activities are more cryptically tied to the Disney movies they are studying than are Julia's to the "world travel" theme.  For instance, on the first day of Disney week, Madeleine's class watched clips from the movie Wall-E, which, for the uninitiated, takes place in a future Earthen wasteland.  Madeleine's project was a recyclable bag that is hand-decorated with "Save the Earth" slogans:

On the front of the bag, you can see, Madeleine advises us Earth-dwellers to clean!  clean!  clean!  clean!  clean! 

That's some good advice for saving the earth.


The back of the bag has more earth-saving tactics:

"Make shor to clean caen clean!" 
"Peace"
"The erth is a good place"


And, just sayin', the Earth is not the only good thing we should care for:

"care fore ice cream to!"


That's right.  Don't JUST clean.  Care fore ice cream to, because the erth is a good place!


The second day of class focused on the Hawaiian "Lilo and Stitch," so Madeleine made a Hawaiian lei, as well as learned a hula dance.  Because she had no music on hand, she decided to just ad lib a song on the fly as she showed off her hula skills for me:






Sure, she may have gotten a little too distracted trying to come up with more words to her song to fully focus on her hula-ing, but I say it's a DOUBLE accomplishment to compose a song AND dance at the exact same time!  You OWN this, hula girl!!