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Dobbins kids team up
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Fourth-graders Mallory Malmor (left) and Olivia Barrett shared solos during the performance of "What Will I Be?"
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Neighbors | Sarah Foor .The Dobbins fourth-graders held a sassy pose at the end of their first performance.
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Ava Nicholudis (left), Michael Nicholudis, Alyssa Glaros, and Nate Soubeyrand showed off their dance moves during their concert performance.
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Alyssa Glaros (left) and Samantha Cox (right) helped out their friend Nate Soubeyrand (center) when he forgot a word or two of the song he was singing.
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The final performance of the night was a joint performance between the fourth-graders and the kindergarteners to "Jump in the Line."
By SARAH FOOR
With classrooms on opposite sides of Dobbins Elementary, the school’s kindergartners and fourth-graders don’t usually see much of each other.
That changed on May 18, when the school’s oldest and youngest students joined forces to entertain guests in a lively year-end concert.
The show began with a performance by the fourth-graders, who sang selections called “You Rock,” “Music on My Mind,” and “What Will I Be?” The fourth-graders showed off their skills in sign language during their songs, showing that they could perform with their voices as well as their hands.
The kindergartners took the stage after the fourth-graders, dancing and singing along to a classic mix of Motown favorites like “The Locomotion” and “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg.”
Kindergarten teacher Elaine Fabrizi has been using the same mix of songs for the concert for the last 20 years.
“It’s a timeless selection that every age seems to enjoy. It’s traveled with me from old records, to tapes, and onto CDs now. The mix is a tradition here and it’s great to see the kids that have done it the years before to remember and sing along,” Fabrizi said.
The show’s finale had the two grades come together to boogie to “Jump in the Line,” where they followed the song’s directions to “shake, shake, shake Senora.”
“It’s a lot of lively fun, but it’s also special because we celebrate the kindergartners, whose time is just beginning here, and the fourth-graders, who are about to say goodbye,” principal Cheryl Borovitcky shared.