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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

The Wild Wild West

Today was "Cowboy Day" in the Trilogy elementary school. Many of the children dressed in cowboy hats, plaid shirts, and boots,

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and they all had cowboy bandanas that they had colored yesterday afternoon.

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Our lunch-time reading was the first chapter of The Good, the Bad, and the Goofy

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and we watched about half of the movie, Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.

This was the part of the movie that the children seemed to enjoy the most:




There was a special guest this afternoon, the amazingly talented Brinson Harris, who is a professional rodeo clown. He told us about his ancestors, who were real cowboys, and demonstrated rope and whip tricks.



The very impressive Texas Skip:



Here are some scenes from our cowboy day:



If you would like to order a DVD of Brinson and his father, find out where they are preforming next, or book them for a rodeo, they can be found at http://www.hollywoodandboogerhead.net/

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