Jackson had a special role in his elementary school's Spirit assembly today because he was his class' student of the month. He got to stand in the hallway leading to the gym, along with all the other SOM's for all the classes (grades K-5), and they cheered, waved pompoms, and generally created a giant ruckus as the kids and teachers filed in for the assembly.
Once inside the gym, the SOM's got to sit on risers in a special section reserved just for them.
The first part of the assembly was a little skit put on by a few of the teachers. The theme seemed to be The Olympics, which I thought a bit odd since they were over 6 months ago. The teachers had named 4 of the rings and what they could stand for if they were to have special meaning at the school, but they were stumped on what to have the 5th one represent. What could they do, what could it mean? And along came Olympic gold medalist Nastia Liukin to help them figure it out!!! (and don't ask me what she came up with, because I have no idea!)
She actually attended Wells from 1st-4th grades and many of the teachers still there had her as a student. She talked to the kids about how long she has done gymnastics, they showed a little video of her at the Olympics ("Ooooh Aaaaah WOW!!!" as they showed her flipping all over the place on the vault and parallel bars), and then she judged the grade level cheer competition. That's the Wells spirit stick that she's holding below, 2nd grade's prize (at least until next month's assembly) for winning.
Nastia stood outside the gym for 20 minutes, giving all 470 students high-fives as they filed back to their classrooms.
Jacks was pretty underwhelmed by Nastia (even though we did watch her a lot last summer, but mainly he remembers Usain Bolt), but he was very proud of his pompom and getting to sit in the special section. Also, Jacks rarely gets attention solely on him without having to share some of the spotlight with his brothers, even if just through their presence. Gramma stayed with Cody and Lucas so that I could focus on Jacks today, which I think made him feel all the more special, so I'm glad I went. We're very proud of all his efforts at school! :)
1 comment:
Aww, sounds like an awesome day! I think it's great that you were able to go alone so he could feel that much more special. He sounds like one great kid! :) (and of course, so do your other boys)
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