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Our annual Art Show was a complete success! Thank you to all of our families who baked goodies for our guests, and for all of our guests who showed up and celebrated their child's artistic endeavors. We had some truly beautiful results and I hope that all of the students will bring their artwork home and hang their creations with pride.   Here are some photos from our evening, and I hope to add more throughout the week.

Snowfest Parade

We had an excellent opportunity to join the fun and walk in the Kings Beach Snowfest parade on Saturday, March 10th. Thanks to one of our hard working dads (who took care of all the communication, registration, and planning) we had a great turnout and many of our families were able to join us in the fun.  It was a BEAUTIFUL day and we had warm sunny weather for our big debut. This was the first year IVNS has walked in a Snowfest parade!  The kids had a great time getting to ride their bikes & trikes down the middle of Highway 28, and we were blessed by a bouncing party float who blasted music for us to dance to the whole way.  The kids were all smiles and many of them had balloons and sparkly streamers tied to their handlebars to help add to the spectacle. We'll definitely have to plan on attending this event again next year, as it was a fun and easy way to get our name out into the community. Hopefully everyone who attended had as much fun as I did with my family!

Snow on the Playground

In early March we had a nice little snowstorm that brought enough fresh powder for some great snow play on the playground. The PM class immediately dug in and started rolling huge snowballs and stacking them to create a snow creature. It kept getting taller and taller until it became more of a snow totem pole - and without Misty's help it would have surely toppled over! The kids had a great time tromping around and even had a snowball throwing contest to try to hit a target. They dug out the merry-go-round and took quite a few spins through the snow. We're lucky we got to enjoy our snowy days on the playground because it has melted quickly since the last storm (who knows though....we may get more next week....). Keep sending that snow gear to school because I have a feeling we'll be needing it again soon!

Tractors & Trombones for "T" Week

A few weeks ago we celebrated "T" week with some special guests.  Our AM class had an exciting visit from a HUGE tractor (thank you Rager family!) and all of the students got to climb into the driver's seat and see how it felt to be up so high in a gigantic piece of machinery.  They were all happy to grab onto the steering wheel and give us a wave. The following school day we asked them what their favorite part of the tractor visit was, and most of them said "standing inside of the bucket"!  It was pretty cute to see them all lined up inside of the bucket with plenty of room left to spare.

At the end of the week our PM class had a special visit from a trombone player! Ms. Lana's oldest daughter plays trombone in her school band and she volunteered to come give a little concert.  The kids sat with eyes peeled and ears open and were an all together great audience.  They asked questions and used a lot of descriptive language to talk about how it sounded and what they liked or disliked about it. Many of them walked away talking about how they were going to become trombone players when they get older.

It was quite an inspiring "T" week at IVNS - and we're looking forward to planning more visits from our community members in the future.  It is a great experience for our students to have a new activity to look forward to as well as giving them exposure to something they normally wouldn't get on an average school day. After all....it's not likely that Ms. Misty or I will start driving a tractor to school on a daily basis!

And the trombone visit: