What's the Medora Musical all about?

In my classroom we do sharing every morning. At the beginning of the week, the kids are put on a "Sharing Schedule" and four or five students are assigned one day to share that week. They can bring something in to share, just tell about something, or, if they like, pass on their day.

Today the sweetest little peanut shared that over the summer, her family took a vacation for her little sister's birthday. They traveled to Mt. Rushmore (by the way: if you ever want to impress a third grader from North Dakota, tell them you've been to Mt. Rushmore. This location never ceases to amaze them and they are beyond fascinated by it. It may even rival Disney World -- true story) and then continued on the Medora to be a part of the world's cheesiest all-American propoganda: the Medora Musical.

Now, if you've never been, Medora is a town way out in the middle of nowhere western North Dakota. It really is a beautiful setting with the North Dakota badlands all around. But what occurs there is beyond fathomable: a robotic Theodore Roosevelt, a female main character that rides around on a pink semi-truck while a chorus of twelve or so twenty-somethings sing and dance around in full-out cowboy and cowgirl gear with crazy happy smiles across their faces. Think "High School Musical" only elevated five levels in cheese factor with lots of American flags and cowboy influence. It's awesome. Not to mention you can eat steak that's been cooked in a GIANT vat of oil while skewered on a pitchfork. Mmmhmm, you heard me. They call it pitchfork fondue. Again, awesome. Anyway.

So anyway, since some kids have never been to the Medora Musical, I ask her to share with the class what it's all about.

And with a beautiful, big smile and gleaming eyes, she shares proudly, "It's all about Teddy Bear Roosevelt."

So cute. So sweet. So much work to do in third grade.

I love school.

:)