Sec 1 Orientation Concert

I attended Juliane's Secondary 1 Orientation Concert this evening. Now I know why she has been so tired for the past week, often sleeping not long after she arrived home haha. The girls really put in effort for the concert and look like the girls are bonding well within their classes and as a Sec 1 cohort.

Praises

I attended Juliane's Parent-Teacher-Meeting this morning. When I saw her teacher, she has nothing but praises about Juliane. :) I am really proud of Juliane.

Her teacher is really impressed with Juliane's performance at the preschool's concert on 28 November 2009. She said Juliane was really confident and articulate as the emcee and she had a smile on throughout. She was also the lead dancer for one of her dance items and she led the dance beautifully. In class, Juliane is able to understand instructions and learns very quickly and she has leadership qualities as she helps to guide other classmates. Her teacher told me that Juliane has asked her for homework to do. Goodness, first I have heard of a kid asking the teacher for homework to do! Hahaha.

I bought the concert dvd and saw for myself Juliane's performance. She did excellent as an emcee and she danced really well, always had a smile on and boy, can she shake lol. :)

Emcee

I came home to see an emcee script on the coffee table. My goodness, Juliane has been made one of the two emcees for her end-of-year preschool concert! Hahaha. I am really surprised. I never expected Juliane to have the mettle to be an emcee. Her teacher said she is very confident and could say her lines clearly. I am really proud of her. :)

Now all I have to do is to make sure she can memorise her lines by Saturday 31 October for her preschool concert rehearsal. :)

Kid's Performance Arts Concert

I attended my older girl, Marieann's performance art concert in school. Her class performed 2 items - Chinese Dance and Chinese Speech and Drama. She looked quite natural up on stage and seemed to be enjoying herself. Well, she is no stranger on stage as she has been performing since she was in N2. I took videos of Marieann in the dance item as well as the speech and drama item so that Juliane can watch her sister's performance. Juliane certainly enjoyed watching her sister performed and also wanted to perform lol. :)

Marieann's Pre-School Concert Performance

Today is the girls' Pre-school Concert Day, 9:30 to 12:30pm.

As Marieann was involved in the concert: two dance items, she had to be at the NTUC Building auditorium by 8:30am. That meant everyone had to be up early and were so by 7:15am. Marieann needed to have her breakfast first before putting on her make-up for her performance. Juliane watched as their grandmother applied make-up on her sister. Sorry, their mother, i.e. I am just hopeless and clueless about applying make-up. Lol. By 8am, we were out of the house.

We arrived at the auditorium real early at 8:15am. Maybe because it is a Sunday, it was so early in the morning, and the venue was in Shenton Way, there were hardly any traffic on the road. Marieann went backstage with her teacher while Juliane and us waited around. More and more parents with their children started arriving. While waiting, (time passed really slowly) I took a few snap-shots from the Sky Terrace of the buildings around. Finally at 9:10am, we could be seated in the auditorium. We were seated in Row K, 11 rows from the stage. Not too bad, not that far away, we could see the stage quite clearly. Anyway, we weren't allowed to take photos as the camera flashes might distract the young performances.

There was a Graduation Ceremony, followed by performances - 12 dance items and 2 Speech & Drama items and a Grand Finale "Heal The World". Marieann danced in two items: Sway/ Rock 'N' Roll Soniye and Honey. My oh my, I never realised that Marieann can dance so well! She refused to dance at home when we asked her to practise for us. She has must gotten my genes. LOL. Only joking. :P

The concert ended about 12pm. We went home for lunch and for the girls to rest. Tonight, we have another appointment at Vivocity for dinner. Busy, busy, busy. :P