Naomi's 4th Grade Student Council Sept 17th-23rd 2013

Naomi announced at Dinner that she wanted to run for Student Council. OK, so what do you have to do? She went into a whole slew of papers to be signed, poster to be made, speech to be written... So here you go with a few photos. 

The poster making: I tried to guide her on making a very simple poster with a catchy slogan. We came up with "DON'T BE BOLOGNA VOTE FOR NAOMI" But we weren't sure how many kids would know how to spell or say bologna so we changed the "a" to an "i" on the poster. You'll see below.

We tried to sparkle her name, but it wasn't showing up the way we wanted it, so once the whole things was finished, we used gold glitter spray and sprayed the whole poster. 

 It was her idea to add a rainbow. She wanted to do a bunch of rainbows, but I talked her into one big one. Putting a bunch of bologna on it would be cheesy. So a rainbow would make it bright and vivid enough to see the color but read the black letters.

The day of her speech, I waited outside her class room after school. The new student council members, who were voted in by the class, weren't told who made it till the last 5 minutes of  class. So when Naomi walked out of her room, she threw her arms up with a big woohoo. This is the face of a very confidant and excited girl. 

During the next Monday morning assembly, all the new student council members were called up to the front to help say the pledge of allegiance, school pledge, and sing the Mariner song. It was so fun to have her name called and get to walk all the way up the ramp to stand in front of the whole school. Thats her right in the middle with the white shirt and pink lunch box.

After the first student council meeting, Naomi and one other boy were selected to stand up at the next Monday morning announcements. She was able to pass out gold card winner prizes, say the pledge, and sing the mayflower song. She was adamant that we needed to be to school early so she could wait up on the top ramp. She is very serious about this job.

 I did start a video of her saying the pledge, but my phone was too full, ugh, even though I deleted a bunch of photos so I would have room. Bummer. I'm sure she'll do it again.