Shreya makes the newspaper!

by | Tuesday, November 10, 2009

For Halloween, my daughter, Shreya’s fifth grade class entertained a bunch of first-graders with a spooky music and dance show. A news reporter was there and her photo (Shreya’s not the news reporter’s) ended up on the cover of The Towne Courier, the local community newspaper. Here is a link to the story and since it may not remain online forever, I have kept a screenshot here. Here she is, dressed up as a Spider Queen(?), spinning “a musical web on her xylophone.”

Sherya's Halloween
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