The Americans stand out ... in Pink!

If you asked Natania and Claire what has been the highlight so far of their time in England, they would undoubtedly tell you... "Ballet!!!" We were fortunate to be able to join a class of 5/6 year olds for the last 4 weeks of their ballet class before it let out for the summer holiday. So last Wednesday the mums got to stay and watch the last class and it gave me a chance to snap some shots of the girls "first ballet class" that we will all enjoy looking back on when they are Prima ballerinas! We may have to find them a dancing class when we return to the US, but i'm kidding about them being professional dancers... we're too committed to the violin! You can call me Tiger mom!... again... totally kidding!

This week it was a small class as many students are already on holiday. Usually it is double the size and so you can see that it would be easy for Natania and Claire to get lost among the many girls. I took care of that, as you'll be able to see from the pictures.

roll call... to which the girls learned to reply "Good afternoon Miss Anna" when their name was called

Claire is one of the first ready: feet together, standing tall, holding skirt out!

Skipping!

Reach, reach!

End of term, teacher hands out "dancing star" ribbons. the girls are very proud.

(Random foot in photo belongs to the squirmy younger brother sitting in front of me- parents were seated on the stage)

side note:

Actually the real reason my girls are wearing bright pink while all the others are in baby blue is that we had brought our own leotards with us from the US, (for playing dress up) and when we signed up for ballet, they said we didn't need to buy the whole costume kit since we were only committing to 4 weeks of classes! i'm sure it helped their teacher out... "let's see, where are those new girls..."