Woonam School Festival...

Every year our school has a festival where each class performs something special and parents are invited to come and watch. It festival goes all day. Some teacher are very creative with the performance and others fall back on K-pop dances. Last year I remember many more dances, so I applaud the teachers for stepping up their game this year.

This year some of the classes went together and then let the kids decide what they participated in. This allowed for a really cool taekwando rountine/dance by some 4th grades. 6th grade also let the kids decide what they wanted to participate in. Some chose a dance, others a skit performance, and others singing.

I really love seeing the kids doing their talents. Some of the most shy speakers and lowest level students really light up on a stage. It just goes to show that everyone has different talents and abilities, but you can usually find something that you are naturally good at.

My co-teacher, Ms. Nam has a daughter in the 1st grade and her class did a traditional Korean dance and all of the students were wearing hanbok and traditional clothes. It was so cute and she was VERY professional and serious about her dance! CUTE! :)

There is a bit of a strange tradition for these school festivals... Outside of the schools, people set up tables to sell candy arrangements. Most are made out of tulle and fluffy stuff and have an arrangement of suckers in the middle. Parents buy these and after their kids perform they give them to them. The kids instantly rip off the fluffy stuff (and toss it aside) to find the important stuff- the candy! There were also personalized little banners that had kid's names and pictures of them on a form board #1 finger sign. Candy was also attached to these as well... This causes to them completely not pay attention to the classes actually performing because they are looking at their candy, inspecting their candy, sharing their candy, and eating their candy...

 

Another thing they they do on this day is hang up the student's artwork. I got a kick looking at the younger grades artwork knowing full well that the parents actually made them. Some of the stuff was better than the 5th and 6th graders and they are allowed to bring them from home... hmmm...