Journee’s school recently held their annual Benji Fair (Benji for Benjamin Parker Elementary). The different grades have booths selling various items (Journee’s sold spam musubi – local delight [rice and spam wrapped in seaweed]– and had a fish pond) in order to raise money for the school. The school provides bouncey houses, face painting and other games.
A favorite game of all the children is the paperclip toss where the keiki (children) toss a paperclip into cups. Of course all children are awarded a prize -- a goldfish. Journee ended up bringing home 6 goldfish.
I’ve selected various pictures from the Benji Fair.
One is of Journee and her classmates doing the Macarena dance for the audience. Another is of her getting her face painted by the school counselor. In the spinner ride are Journee and her friends Katelyn and Kierstan (and Katelyn’s little brother). The last picture is of Journee working at her class’s booth. She enjoyed working the fish pond booth.
When I was her age, my grandmother took me to the annual Flag Day parade in Wanette, Okla, and I loved selling items for the Eastern Star. It made my heart smile to see Journee enjoying to help the little kids catch a fish (gift).
2 comments:
great blogging girl...keep it up
the benji fair was lots of fun but i was really tired by the time we left.
i'm enjoying blogging -- just need to do it more frequently instead of letting it mount up on me.
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