Alyssa and Megan with their tickets to the finals:
Megan winning her semi finals round:
Alyssa also won her semi finals round:
Both Megan and Alyssa were eliminated in their next rounds. If they had won, they were guaranteed a trophy, along with a prize. They were pretty satisfied with their “consolation prizes”, though. Megan chose a bicycle, and Alyssa, an electronic dart board.
Some more pictures of the girls with their frogs:
The object of the frog jump is to get your frog to jump outside of the outer circle without touching it. The kids can blow on the frog, and pound the ground near it, or even throw grass on the frog, but they are not allowed to have their knees leave the inner circle. After winning 3 preliminary rounds, you are onto the finals. This year the girls had a much better experience at the annual frog jump competition. Both Alyssa and Megan made it to the finals, and Jenna came extremely close.
Here, Megan is selecting her frog, and then beginning her race:
Alyssa’s strategy was to cover her frog with grass, and then scare the frog by blowing all the grass off of it. Last year, she was afraid to get near her frog. This year, she was actually handling it.
Jenna was strong right out of the gate. She whipped through the first two rounds, only to get beaten by one of the “pros” – a kid who brought his own frogs, which seemed trained.
Lately, Jenna and Alyssa have been really into the Michael Jackson Experience Wii game. Jenna is actually pretty good at it. Here they are dancing to Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough.
Next they danced to Beat It.
Finally, here is Jenna dancing to her favorite, Thriller. She scores close to a perfect score every time she does this one.
This week’s project was the airplane from Madagascar 3.
Megan and her Kindergarten friends during the last week of school:
Megan and her teacher, Mr Landon:
Megan and her Joyland friends during her last week there:
Megan and her teacher, Miss Tracy:
Mmm, snow cones on a chilly day!
It was too windy for the inflatable bounce houses to be used, so the Kindergartners stayed inside for field day.
All of the students, faculty and parents lined the hallway as the 5th graders walked down the hall. Everybody cheered and clapped for them on their second to last day ever in Washington Elementary School.
Jenna and her teacher, Mrs. Jenkins
The girls’ field day was almost postponed due to weather, but ended up going on as planned. Everyone was just a bit chilly after taking part in the water games.
Jenna and her friends performed a dance routine to Chris Brown’s “Yeah 3X” for her school talent show, and from what I hear, the crowd went wild.
It was exciting to see the Reds play at night for the girls. They had only been to day games previously.
Even though we didn’t get back to Grandma and Grandpa Mason’s house until almost midnight, they were excited to return to Great American Ballpark the next day, where we met up with some friends.
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