Winter Festival at Coburn School

Tonight we went to the Winter Festival at Marley's school. This is a yearly tradition at Coburn. The whole first floor turns into craft tables manned by teachers with cute Christmas type crafts that the kids can make, the cafeteria sells hot dogs and nachos, there is a raffle and some other game type things. It is very crowded, very hectic, but the kids love it.

This year we had two surprises: Uncle Mark and Mason went with us, and the band and chorus performed.

The picture above shows the kids in Marley's class doing something "winter-ish." Marley is ice fishing (not sure why she has no feet!).

This was the cookie frosting table.



Marley made one for Mason too!



Paul can sniff out a hot dog a mile away.



Here is the band coming out to get into position. This is Marley's first year in the band. She plays the trumpet.





The 4th and 5th grade band. Can you spot Marley? (She is in the back row).



This band concert reminded me of the first band concert that Kristen was in, in the 5the grade. I remember it so clearly. It was in the cafeteria during the afternoon. When all the parents were settled, the band teacher came marching out playing some kind of instrument, with all of the 5th graders marching behind her playing their instruments. I remember having a really hard time not laughing out loud. It was hysterical. The teacher looked like the pide piper with all of the kids behind her. They had probably only been playing their instruments for a month or two and they were just awful. So, I said to Kristen after the concert was over that I thought they did better than Kristen's first band concert. She said, "Well they didn't have to march. It was the whole marching thing as we were playing that made it so hard." She's probably right!

Here Marley is showing Uncle Mark all of the kids in her class.



Making a bracelet.



Toby found Marley's handprint on the ceiling. We have been looking for it every time we come to her school for something. The handprints are of those children receiving a golden ticket. Golden tickets are recognition from the school for doing something noteworthy. She has received a few of them over the years.



You can see a bunch of them on the ceiling in this picture. They are all over the first floor.



Kris, Toby, and Marley (with her candy cane reindeer that she had just made).



Afterwards we all went out for sundaes. I was a little sad thinking this would be Marley's last Winter Festival at Coburn, but as Toby said, there will be new things to replace it. He's right.