Presley's 1st grade program was held on March 8th. They put on the program Tikki Tikki Tembo.
Rather then explaining it myself, I looked it up on Wikipedia. Here's what it had to say - "Tikki Tikki Tembo is set in ancient China and invents an ancient Chinese custom whereby parents honor their first-born sons with long, elaborate names that everyone is obliged to say completely – no nicknames, no shortening of any kind – while the second-born sons are typically given short, unimportant names. A boy named Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo ("The Most Wonderful Thing in the Whole Wide World") and his little brother Chang ("Little or Nothing") are playing near a well they'd been previously warned by their mother to avoid. Chang falls in the well, his older brother runs to their mother, tells her Chang has fallen down the well, and Chang is rescued. Some time later, the boys are again playing near the well. This time, the older brother falls in. Chang runs to their mother and shouts that "Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo has fallen into the well", but she can't hear him. He says it over and over to no avail. He then goes to get the Old Man with the Ladder and uses the ladder to get Tikki Tikki Tembo-no Sa Rembo-chari Bari Ruchi-pip Peri Pembo out of the well in the nick of time. The story presumes to function as an aetiological myth about why Chinese names are so short today."
It was a very cute little program! Here are some pictures from it -
Presley was a mother in the play.
The 3 mothers!
The whole class!
Way to go Presley Renee! We love you!
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