Talent Show & Concert

Sam and Charlie both performed magic tricks for the talent show. Sam didn't find out Charlie was also doing magic tricks until the day of and he was not happy, but it worked out fine. 

Below is a video. The audio is horrible and it's far away so you might not be able to hear some parts. For Charlie's first trick he is holding a toothpick that disappears and reappears. The second trick doesn't quite go as planned but was nonetheless entertaining and continued to entertain through the 3rd trick. In Charlie's last trick, he had a volunteer think of a number (he picked 68), and animal (he picked a tiger) and then to think of the word "yes" or "no."  Charlie wrote down his predictions for each before asking for the answer and then revealed his predictions, which were all right! His volunteer was completely mystified.

The very last performance is of Sam, Ian and RJ singing a song RJ found online. In case you miss the intro, it's called World on Fire. They did not warn the music teacher about the song other than to tell her the title and to say they didn't need mics. I stopped taping before she talked at the end, but she made it a point to let everyone know that they can in fact play guitar and sing better than the performance indicated. Even though Mrs. R wasn't too impressed, I think this performance got the biggest applause of the day.

And here are some highlights from the Spring Concerts - including Elena's solo at the high school concert. 

Wrapping up the year at St. Edward's

 

The boys finished the school year with a bang this May. All 3 boys had field trips (highlights below) and Sam passed 8th grade (with better than average grades!) so he will be moving onto the high school in the fall.

Charlie' class had an overnight field trip to Lake Shetek. Seth was a chaperone and everyone had a blast - even if they didn't sleep much.  When they were gathered around the campfire, Charlie led everyone in the song I Have an Aunt, which is loads of fun. Seth captured the tail end of it on video. 

Frank's class took a trip to the children's museum in Brookings and Sam's class went to Sioux Falls for various adventures. We weren't able to chaperone these field trips, but everyone came home completely exhausted so they must have enjoyed themselves to the fullest. 

The evening of the last day of school, we had Mass and a reception for the 3 graduates. Sam, Ian and Elizabeth have been quite the trio at St. Edward's and they will be greatly missed! The picture on the left was the one chosen for the school bulletin board featuring the graduates. 

To celebrate the end of school, the boys destroyed their workbooks. I think 3 workbooks kept these 7 boys (4 cousins included) busy for about 2 hours as they hit them with baseball bats, had snowball fights and jumped amid the pile of paper on the trampoline. (And they did clean up the mess, in case you're wondering.)