Perky

Time for another round of Special Friends Day. The idea behind this day is really bring your grandparents to school to show off the progress and singing.  But for all of those kids who have grandparents in different places, we have Special Friends.  The last time we celebrated this day was in Emerson's class.  This year Emerson did not want to join in (fourth graders.....) but Flannery has been counting down the days until she got to show off our good friend, Jennifer Honaker. And I'm pretty sure the lovely Ms. Honaker was not prepared for what she got.
Please notice that Flannery is wearing her favorite pan-Asian outfit.  Her Chinese dress is accessorized with her Vietnamese tunic and flowing pants. Please also notice that she is not wearing a sloped bamboo hat and carrying a fan which is what she wanted to wear. What is going on with my children and their incessant need for inappropriate attire? I'm thinking we need Cultural Sensitivity Training here at the Five Cent Farm.

Special Friends Day included our being serenaded with not one, not two but THREE songs in Chinese.  I have no idea what the songs are about (Mao?) but we got the singing and the choreography.  And then some...

Here's where Honaker gets the biggest gold star ever because she had to introduce herself to a room filled with strangers in Chinese that was just taught to her by a first grader because that's fun. And she did it.  If you see her, please ask her to say My name is Jennifer Honaker and I am Flannery's special friend because you've never heard Mandarin until you hear it in a slow Southern drawl. She's my hero. 

Then Flannery and Honaker made a hand print turkey who happened to have long legs (like these two) and be named Perky. Meet Perky the Turkey.  Honaker is writing a song about him on her banjo and I can't wait to hear it.  Maybe Flannery will translate it into Chinese and, well, these two are pretty unstoppable so I think the sky's the limit.