Gullett Elementary students wow families with performance
First- and fourth-grade students sang for a standing-room-only audience.
By
Jessica Salmond
| 10:18 a.m. February 12, 2016
East County
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B.D. Gullett Elementary fit two events in one performance: Valentine’s Day and Earth Day.
Thursday night, Feb. 11, first graders sang and danced to songs about Valentine’s Day. Fourth graders sang for Earth Day and performed skits in between numbers that taught the audience about the importance of saving endangered species and being eco-conscious.
Family members filled the cafeteria, including relatives who had traveled across the country to come and watch.
“I came all the way from Michigan to see this,” said Marsha Parks, who watched her grandson, Niko Sabou, during the fourth-grade performance.
Jeremy Fisher and Diego Castellanos find their families out in the audience.
Parents and family record the first-graders performance about Valentine's Day.
Adam Elshimy talks during the first-grade performance.
Audri Rivera waves to her family.
Eva Tzelepis and Savannah Darst talk about Valentine's Day.
Hunter Ganey and Brice Wilson ask another first-grader to be their Valentine.
Fourth-graders Isabella McCracken and Alanna Bray read off statistics about Earth Day.
Lina Smith and Mary Slaieh came to watch Smith's son, Sam.
Marcie, Chase and Bart Monet wait for their son and brother, Hudson, to perform.
First-graders sing a classic, Take Me Out to the Ball Game.
Grandmother, Marsha Parks, aunt, Amanda Adkins, mom, Dena Sabou and cousin, Ava Chevrier, wait for Sabou's son, Niko, to perform. Parks and Chevrier traveled down from Michigan.
Gwynneth Rustin, Alexa Tzelepis and Spencer Boyer sing for Earth Day.
Sydney Cramer snaps her fingers for a song.
Adriana Campbell gets flowers and a kiss from her dad, Wade.
Gabrielle Waters, Rhaegan Madden, Brianne Bonzheim and Joy Van Buskirk wait to go on stage.
Patrick Willin, Kara Crawford, Makayla Mocadlo and Jimmy Dowling perform a skit about hunting endangered animals.
Music teacher Tim Hamand takes a bow with his first-graders.
