Busy Month of May for Jena

With the awards ceremony and the torch run done, life just got busier for Jena through the last half of the month.  We made a couple of trips to Primary's to work on her braces.  On the top of that, she was busy practicing her final production for musical theatre-- "An Evening with Glee".  It was a collection of musical production numbers over a broad range of music types.  It was a fun three evenings for her.

Big production number with singing and dancing.  She loved it.

Small musical group singing "Over the Rainbow"

I should have taken a picture of her shoes.  The teacher told them to wear red, black and silver and the more "bling" the better.  I you know Jena she is very conservative in her dress and she almost always wear tennis shoes except to Church.  However for this night, she chose a pair of black and silver canvas shoes which are black and silver striped.  Lots of bling!!!  She likes them and now has two pairs of shoes which she would wear to school.

Fun Times......

Jena was a ninth grader so she had lots of fun things involved with finishing up at Legacy Junior High.  In addition, she had special activities with her functional skills classroom as well.  She went to a dance, attend an all-day Art festival, had a field day, a ninth grade party, a picnic, and a Lagoon day!  All in about 3 weeks.  I realized it was getting out of hand when I ran into her seminary teacher and he told me that Jena missed four days of seminary in a row.  He said that the functional skills classroom seemed to be keeping her instead of sending her for seminary.  He said for example the students reported that Jena was with functional skills shooting rockets instead of being in class.  I had to admit it was Gary and I doing the rockets as part of their field day--oops!  I guess we didn't watch the planning of things.  Jena was one happy kid in May!!!

Because of missing her foods class for something fun, she had to make homemade chicken nuggets at home and take a picture to turn into her teacher.
She was happy to do it and they turned out good.

This is Jena with her functional skills teacher, Lyndi Brooks.  She has been an awesome teacher for Jena for the past three years and been a big part of what made Legacy Junior High a great experience for Jena.  It hasn't been perfect but close enough.  Jena loves her and will really miss her when she moves on to Clearfield High School.

At the end of the year picnic