Wednesday, May 28, 2014

Rerun/Redone/Remake

When Josh was in 3rd grade he did an oral report on Thomas Edison.  The 3rd graders put on a performance every year entitled "Greatest Americans of the 20th Century". Thomas Edison has a humorous bit in the play (even though he did most of his inventing in the 1800's thus disqualifying him from becoming one of the greatest Americans of the 20th century).  Josh was absent the day parts were handed out, but ended up with Thomas Edison because of the report he had just done. 
This year Caleb is in 3rd grade.  When oral report time came around Caleb picked a book about..... Thomas Edison. (Yes, he wrote and delivered an entirely different report).  Fast forward a month or so and guess who got the part of Thomas Edison in the play?  I of course had to put their pictures up together.
 

(Zachary did a different play in 3rd grade, and Ryan was an autoworker the year he did it)
Even though I could say most of the parts and sing all of the songs it is still fun to watch different kids "owning" their parts every year.  And the song about Rosa Parks gets me.  Every. Single. Time they sing it.

1 comment:

cynthia said...

Finally! !!!!!!!! A post! Funny the boys got the same part in the play