SCIPS Parade of Nations

Last week, St. Christopher's held a parade of olympians to celebrate the international flavor of its student body.  Parents were invited to view the parade (with many kids dressed in national costume or as athletes from their home country) and then join their kids for a tour of the world.  Each class adopted a particular country and created informative displays to share their knowledge of another country.  Brenna's class did Australia and did a bang-up job of portraying all the fabulous wildlife, aboriginal art and history of Australia.  Our contribution to the display was a "3D" model of a kangaroo....apparently not as hard as it sounded as most parents just sent in a stuffed animal.  Our loving daughter insisted it be a "model", so we came up with a toilet paper tube kangaroo on Sunday afternoon!  It wasn't pretty, but it did resemble a kangaroo and it was creative!

The kids did a great job and at least 30 nations were represented by either students or staff...

Here's the American contingent.

Our favorite American girl...

And my favorite shot of all....Uncle Sam giving the Statue of Liberty a "noogie"!  This was after the Statue whacked Sam with her torch - classic...

It was a fun morning and we're looking forward to the Year 4 end of year "production" this week.  Stay tuned...