Stacking Stones: Emerson's First Musical

EJ has had a fantastic first grade year. A high school teacher and fellow homeschooling parent at our church had the vision to begin a homeschool enrichment charter school that meets every Friday and offers an amazing assortment of classes. I had five pages of class descriptions to read through with EJ and he let me know what he was most interested in. This past spring semester he took a phys. ed. class, piano lessons, an art class (his favorite), a human body hands-on science class, musical theater, and spanish. On the last day of school, the musical theater class performed their play, "The Emperor's New Clothes". There were about 40 1st through 6th graders and they did a fantastic job. His teacher, Mrs. Seibert, often leads the children's programs at our church and coordinates the VBS music crew. She did an amazing job working with these kids each week.

This was EJ's first taste of the stage and he seemed to enjoy it. He practiced the music a lot at home over the past three months and never complained. We are so proud of him for his hard work and effort. Being in first grade, he was one of the youngest kids in the play. He was a "townsperson" and had one speaking part, a small chorus part, as well as being in the large chorus. In all, he memorized 6 songs with choreography.

I have one little clip of the song where he had his speaking part. It's less than two minutes. He's the only boy in the chorus line. ;-)