Ballet and SciOly

Emma had her first "stage performance" this weekend. She had a short part ( I mean short part...like 2 minutes) in the Ballet Company's Spring Gala. They did three acts of a ballet called "Coppelia". Emma and the other little girls (and one boy) were "toy shop puppets". Emma and 5 other girls were the "dolls". They were just adorable. The highlight for Emma was being carried on stage by one of the Company girls (there were only two of them that were carried in). Of course they won't let you take pictures or video because they want you to buy their copies, so I'll add video once we buy the disk.

Adorable "toy shop dolls"



The weekend before, Aaron's Scioly team went to state. The team as a whole didn't do very well, but Aaron placed in two of his events. He took 3rd in Ecology and 5th in Robots. They also took 7th in Road Scholar (map reading) which was quite an accomplishment because he only took on the event in February (they took 2nd at regionals as well). They best part was that even though the team didn't do very well they were given the Spirit award!! That means of all the teams they have the best attitude, showed the best spirit of competition. Way to go Maple Grove!!


Aaron and his Robots partner Evan




Holding up his ecology partners medal (she had to leave early).





The mayor (on the right) came to wish the team good luck at the pep assembly the day before state.