Sisters Elementary School hosts 'Informance'

Sisters Elementary School third-graders stepped forward last Friday to demonstrate their musical skills, developed under the instruction of music teacher Debbi Schlatter.

Schlatter invited parents to what she calls an "Informance," which took up the entire afternoon of the last day of school before spring break. Parents came to school to witness and enjoy their children's musical abilities, and the children then had the opportunity to teach the same skills they learned from Mrs. Schlatter to their parents.

Wind instruments, percussion, dance and voice were all tuned to the music supplied by Mrs. Schlatter. During one of the performances, third-grader Logan Gilleo stepped forward, baton in hand, and directed a toe-tapping, leg-slapping rendition of "Mary Had A Little Lamb."

The last number performed, "America the Beautiful," provided audience, parents, children and onlooking school staff with a resounding, hand-clapping finale.