Jackson has signed up every year and never makes the lottery.
Jessica wanted to sign up to do it, even though there aren't any Pre-Kers who do this. She got in her first time.
She persuaded her friend Sela to do it too. Sela is a girl in her class who is very shy but it was good for them to do this together.
They wanted to dance ballet. Figuring out choreography for Pre-Kers is a little hard. We decided on the following:
Nutcracker suite.
Sela has arms out in the middle of the stage, bouncing to the music. Jessica comes from off stage, dances, and then tags Sela. Sela dances while Jessica freezes in place and bounces to the music. It's sort of a tag dance. At the end of the song they dance together.
They had matching outfits and looked adorable.
Well, it turned out hilarious. Jessica went behind the curtain to start, but she couldn't find her way out until the music teacher saved her. Much laughing. But Jessica pretended like nothing happened and continued with the performance. I thought they did a wonderful job. Sela's mom was afraid that Sela would get frightened, but she did just what they practiced.
The bummer part is that I was videotaping this, but goofed up the videoing right after the stuck behind the curtain part.

It was hilarious and cute. I was very proud of them both.