Thriller Night
Last night Berkeley Lake Elementary School had its school concert for the third and fourth graders. Jacob has been excited about going for the past few weeks. He has been asking us to play various Michael Jackson videos online and has every now and then been dancing like a zombie in the kitchen. I didn’t know why, or didn’t put the two together, that he might be performing something special for us. Well now…were we in for a treat.
The first part of the show was what I would call a typical elementary school music class presentation. Each of the kids in the third grade, all dressed the same, were lined up on a raised platform and sang a few songs for onlooking, camera happy parents. The second part was nothing I would have expected. We had to leave the cafeteria, the location of the first event, and head to the gym. Parents were situated around the edges while the kids populated the center, spaced nicely apart. Now I thought we were going in here for a “dance” were we might get to spend some time doing mommy-son or daddy-son dances but that certainly wasn’t the case.
The first song they danced to – and i do mean danced – was Michael Jackson’s “Thriller Night”. It was amazing fun. I would have never expected this from a third grader class. They all knew the moves and danced in unison from their assigned spots. Jacob was full of energy and fantastic to watch. He was situated at the very end of the gym somewhat in a row by himself and he took advantage of the space to show off his moves. The second dance was the “school dance”, the Berkeley Lake Bear Shuffle. I didn’t know schools had dances…and well maybe they shouldn’t…the kids had fun with it jumping in circles for a few minutes. The last one was also not expected – The Macarena – seriously. I would never have believed it had I not seen it. Forty or more kids dancing to the beat of the song and doing the moves right along with it.
Once the kids were done we got to come out and dance the Macarena with them – a couple of drinks and we could have made this a good night! 
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