| Holiday season's here! |
Pfiuhhh....FINALLY this semester's over! officially today was it. the last day of school this year. And so the holiday's started...yippeeee...wowwieeee...can't seem to scream enough to express my new found freedom! After 2 rough weeks of holidays stuff to take care of, the idea of 4 weeks with no school enlightens me somehow...hehehhe.
bayangin aja, nyiapin persiapan winter concert anak anak udah dimulai dari 2 minggu yang lalu, latihan gabungan, props making dan segala tetek bengek...belum lagi christmas celebrations, party hmmm...guess i deserve the restful break after all :p here are some of the highlights of the past weeks....picture paints a thousand words, i believe...
the backdrop: kids made paperback puppets of Rudolph the red nose reindeer, cut out the xmas tree-hand...santa (a teenie tiny one-"he's not fat enough!" according to our own A.J) and the sleigh full of gifts and pressents!
The very festive looking cupcakes are courtesy of AJ's mom, Vivian. Thanks a lot! they were yummy yet too hard to eat...coz they're just plainly too cute to eat!
everyone Christmas needs a tree, no? if not...where are we putting all these pressies??? :)
Cayden and his smart suit...ready for the winter concert! ain't he cute???
Jassie is simply planning her best designing skill on her Christmas stick-a-card
while Taj is creating her masterpiece on the Christmas cookie!
This is what it looked like when we're having the Christmas party...pizza-cupcakes-cookies...who could say no to THOSE???? especially 15 excited little 5-6 year olds!
seems unbelievable that a couple of minutes before, they were this serious looking crowd listening to the Christmas story...:P
Kindergarten D gets ready for the holiday concert...singing esta es la navidad and winter waltz, carrying their hand made snowflakes! they put on a good show...really proud of them.
time to exchange gifts from under the tree! sooooooo fun! everyone was so excited and yelling : "JUST WHAT I WANTED!" hihihihi...staged indeed :p
Last but not least...I'd also like to take this moment to say:
"Merry Christmas and happy holidays" to my friends out there...may the new year's be blessed and prosperous!
peace out!Labels: celebrations, christmas, kids, parties |
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| Happy Halloween! pumpkin all the way.... |
Nahh...sekarang giliran Halloween celebration yang mau gue report disini ya... have to say seruuu banget! Dikelas, beberapa hari sebelum halloween, anak anak udah mulai sibuk bikin decorations buat haunted house (alias kelas kita) dari mulai bikin bats dan flying ghosts buat di hang all over our class, sampe gambar gambar yang halloween related lainnya. 
Pas hari Halloweennya, mereka come to school dengan kostum yang heboh jaya deh pokoknya. hehehhe..ada yang jadi pirate, witches, princess, Egyptian, monster, samurai, batman-superman-spidey pokoknya like i told you before...hebbboh! Mrs. Decker got us a bunch of web dan spiders yang digantung dimana mana, jadilah kelas gue hari itu disulap jadi haunted house beneran.
Kegiatan hari ini super packed banget. Pertama tama kita carving pumpkin dulu...bikin jadi Jack o'lantern. here's a story i found about Jack o'lantern:
People have been making jack o'lanterns at Halloween for centuries. The practice originated from an Irish myth about a man nicknamed "Stingy Jack." According to the story, Stingy Jack invited the Devil to have a drink with him. True to his name, Stingy Jack didn't want to pay for his drink, so he convinced the Devil to turn himself into a coin that Jack could use to buy their drinks. Once the Devil did so, Jack decided to keep the money and put it into his pocket next to a silver cross, which prevented the Devil from changing back into his original form. Jack eventually freed the Devil, under the condition that he would not bother Jack for one year and that, should Jack die, he would not claim his soul. The next year, Jack again tricked the Devil into climbing into a tree to pick a piece of fruit. While he was up in the tree, Jack carved a sign of the cross into the tree's bark so that the Devil could not come down until the Devil promised Jack not to bother him for ten more years.
Stingy Jack
Soon after, Jack died. As the legend goes, God would not allow such an unsavory figure into heaven. The Devil, upset by the trick Jack had played on him and keeping his word not to claim his soul, would not allow Jack into hell. He sent Jack off into the dark night with only a burning coal to light his way. Jack put the coal into a carved-out turnip and has been roaming the Earth with ever since. The Irish began to refer to this ghostly figure as "Jack of the Lantern," and then, simply "Jack O'Lantern."
dan here's a picsie of our carved pumpkin, our own Jack o' lantern!
Habis itu kita bikin skeletons dari makaroni, bikin halloween finger puppets, making monster's hand dari plastic glove yang diisi pake popcorn dan read halloween's stories. full day o' fun!
After lunch kita main halloween musical chairs yang heboh, soalnya anak anak yang kalah dapet cookie berbentuk ghost, sementara yang menang akan dapet cookie berbentuk si Jack o'lantern. Cookies diprovide sama Harshika, mamanya Bhakthi. Ronde final, tinggal Foster dan Taj yang berebut kursi terakhir, dan game dimenangkan oleh Taj! hahaha...how she was sooooo happy about that. Untung Foster lagi punya perjanjian sama gue soal waterbaby, jadi dia rada slow walaupun nggak menang ;).
Sebelum pulang, kita share muffin horor berbentuk ghost dan jack o'lantern dari Vivian, mamanya A.J. Pfiiiiuuh! and that halloween party came to an end.
Ya, for kids it is...but for kita kita the adults, ada undangan untuk Halloween TGIF for nibbles and drinks di tempatnya Kristy Dyck di Patiunus, a couple of blocks away from school. Dan our party have just begun! hehehhe....
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