FLOTUS pool #6- DeLalio Elementary School - games, crafts and 67

The First and Second Lady arrived at DeLalio Elementary School at 2:02 pm

They visited with three classrooms of about a dozen elementary students on each room and their teachers in an open setting.

The First Lady sat next to one girl who was intently focused on using scissors to cut a piece of paper. She introduced herself and offered to help cut the paper for the arts project. At one point she praised the girl’s “beautiful” hair that was in pigtails.

She later moved on to a table of boy students to observe their art projects. At one point she picked up a foam dice they were playing with and rolled it on the table.

One girl wandered over to speak to the First Lady but pooler could not hear their conversation.

She moved to the next table where a boy was coloring a picture of a turkey.

She returned to the table where the girl was cutting paper and spoke to her as she was pasting paper squares on a yellow background.

“Goodbye everybody, Happy Thanksgiving!” She said as she moved to the next classroom

She moved to the next classroom, where a girl showed her a picture of her cat.

A small boy approached her and said he was shy but the first Lady offered to give him a hug and he accepted.

Two children spotted a ladybug on the floor and picked it up to show it to their teacher who said it must mean they were going to get “good luck.”

The First Lady crouched down to speak to another girl who appeared to talk to her about snakes.

“Snakes can be dangerous,” she told the girl.

When the first lady pointed out the press, and asked if she wanted to say hi, the girl looked up and promptly walked away.

She and the Second Lady moved to a third classroom where one girl read her something off of her paper and a young boy was furiously trying to erase something he had colored. The First Lady moved to another table where students were playing a game where they put a card with a word into a plastic headband and put it on their head.

The First Lady put the headband on her head with the word “sled” in it. They then wrote down the word on each others head. She then put a card that read “plum” on it and also one that read “slid”

She smiled and told the students it was a “fun game.”

At another table two students told the Second Lady Usha Vance their ages.

“ I’m six,” said one student. “I’m seven,” said another student, prompting other students to call out the infamous 6-7 thing that kids do.

That led one teacher to protest, “Oh my gosh, Don’t say that!”

The Second Lady laughed and said the trend “hadn’t hit my household yet” and only learned about it from other people.

“I’m not on my guard,” she said.

Pool later moved to a cafeteria area where more students were doing arts and crafts when the First Lady and the Second Lady arrived.

Students wearing a red, white, and blue ribbon have a service member in their family actively deployed overseas

Teacher and staff names:

Met by:

Mr. Ryan Smith

District Superintendent, DODEA

Ms. Shelia Gilliard

Principal, DeLalio Elementary School

Kindergarten and 1st Grade Classrooms

Mrs. Quintero’s Kindergarten Class

Ms. Mitchell’s Kindergarten Class

Ms. Sholar’s 1st Grade Class

Arts and crafts with 3rd 4th and 5th graders

Participants:

Mr. Myron Dannemiller, Art Teacher, DeLalio Elementary School

Dr. Jessica Holloway, Art Teacher, DeLalio Elementary School

46 - 3rd, 4th, and 5th Graders, DeLalio Elementary School

Pool exited at 3:00 pm we are now moving out to the military hanger for remarks.