{"id":4246,"date":"2009-03-25T10:34:50","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:34:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/?p=4246"},"modified":"2009-03-25T10:34:50","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T17:34:50","slug":"fete2009part1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/2009\/03\/25\/fete2009part1\/","title":{"rendered":"Dancing and Singing at Fete Francaise"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our kids’ school held a huge French Festival last weekend — it’s the biggest fundraiser for our nonprofit and is the event around which the entire school revolves.<\/p>\n

This is to say, it’s a big deal.<\/p>\n

We’re very invested.\u00c2\u00a0 (See?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s us — major supporters.)<\/p>\n

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The kids open Fete with songs.\u00c2\u00a0 Will, among the youngest in his grade (and so darn cute), stood front and center for the kick-off song medley — all popular French songs that we parents have heard sung to us a few dozen times a year.<\/p>\n

For this first performance, Will (standing smack in the center for all to see) was the kid that sort of stands there while the rest sing around him.\u00c2\u00a0 Either he knows the songs so well that he can’t bear to sing them AGAIN, or, this whole thing with his hearing reduction over the past 6 months is so severe that he didn’t quite get all the words to some of the songs.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, maybe his nose is just so enthralling he could not leave it alone?<\/p>\n

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It was actually pretty hilarious, watching him sort of heavily sigh.\u00c2\u00a0 Particularly during songs he’s belted out 800 times at home, like “Freire Jacques”.<\/p>\n

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Really, being the center of attention to several hundred adoring parents and classmates is SO BORING.<\/p>\n

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And then this started.\u00c2\u00a0 Circled for emphasis.<\/p>\n

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With some more of this.\u00c2\u00a0 Again, circled.<\/p>\n

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Eventually Will took a seat (see him in the audience?) to watch the rest of the classes perform.\u00c2\u00a0 His individual class performance came later.<\/p>\n

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Before he took the stage for his second performance, he told me he was going to sing his class song AS LOUD AS HE COULD and RIGHT TO ME.<\/p>\n

Here they are, warming up to the song with a dance inspired by the story, Kirikou<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 It’s a story they’d read many times in class and took a field trip to the local movie theatre to see a special showing of the French release of a movie based on the story<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Here they are, getting ready for the song:<\/p>\n

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And here’s the song:<\/p>\n

Kirikou Song at Fete<\/a><\/center><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nKirikou Performance Fete Francaise<\/a> from Cold Spaghetti<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>. <\/center><\/a><\/p>\n

Kate’s class, the youngest in the school, also performed.\u00c2\u00a0 Here she is hanging out in the chaos of students, teachers, and parents… waiting patiently.<\/p>\n

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Despite all her singing of “Freire Jacques” at home — and perhaps in spite of my maniac practice of it on piano and drilling the words with her so that she’d be able to sing it for Fete — Kate’s class didn’t sing.\u00c2\u00a0 They danced.<\/p>\n

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Three of Kate’s classmates didn’t make it through the circle dance.\u00c2\u00a0 Parents were invited to join in, to keep the little ones calm.\u00c2\u00a0 We didn’t worry about Kate.\u00c2\u00a0 We knew she’d be ROCK OUT, NO PROBLEM.<\/p>\n

Kate at Fete<\/a><\/center><\/a>
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\nCreche Fete Dance<\/a> from Cold Spaghetti<\/a> on Vimeo<\/a>.<\/center><\/a><\/p>\n

Here’s some more of Will, bustin’ moves.<\/p>\n

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Still, with the nose.<\/p>\n

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And whatever else…?<\/p>\n

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Singing to me(!), as promised.<\/p>\n

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What a cutie.<\/p>\n

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Singin’ in French.<\/p>\n

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School? Mission accomplished. We parents have effectively been brainwashed into believing that the amount spent on school last year (more than twice my total student loan debt and more than the cost of all 4 years of my college education combined)… was worth it.<\/p>\n

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Work hard, kids. You ARE our 401K.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our kids’ school held a huge French Festival last weekend — it’s the biggest fundraiser for our nonprofit and is the event around which the entire school revolves. This is to say, it’s a big deal. We’re very invested.\u00c2\u00a0 (See?\u00c2\u00a0 That’s us — major supporters.) The kids open Fete with songs.\u00c2\u00a0 Will, among the youngest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[100,79,83],"tags":[62,108,107],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4246"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4247,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4246\/revisions\/4247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.coldspaghetti.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}