Is there anything more Atlanta than our favorite musical family at our favorite family destination?
That’s right Laughing Pizza is hosting a film premiere event at the Georgia Aquarium!!! My five year old and almost one year old love to dance and Laughing Pizza’s songs come on in between their favorite pbs kids shows, it is adorable to watch them jump up and down and shake to the music.
A little bit about the band:
Laughing Pizza is a real family band who write and perform all original pop-music for families. This mom, dad, and daughter trio travel across the nation performing at theatres, museums, music festivals, nightclubs, schools, and other venues. Lisa and Billy (the mom and dad) are both classically trained musicians and former music teachers with a history of success in the grown-up music business. Emily, their 15-year-old daughter, plays multiple instruments including flute, drums, guitar, piano, and bass – and co-writes all of the Laughing Pizza songs with her parents – all while attending school online and crafting the new Laughing Pizza clothing line!
A little bit about the event:
Atlanta's family-favorite musical group, Laughing Pizza, invites families to the grand Oceans Ballroom at Georgia Aquarium for a one-time, VIP family film premiere Saturday, Feb. 4 at 11:00 a.m. The award-winning band and world’s largest aquarium are teaming up for the world premiere of Laughing Pizza: The Concert Movie as well as a live performance by Laughing Pizza after the screening.
Beginning at 11:00 a.m., guests will get the “red carpet treatment” with photographs, spectacular views into the world’s largest aquatic habitat, Ocean Voyager, as well as views into the charismatic beluga whale habitat from within the grand Oceans Ballroom. There will also be entertainment by Atlanta's own Circus Camp and more. The VIP screening of Laughing Pizza: The Concert Movie, will begin at 12:00 p.m. (The film has already won 5 out of 5 Doves from the Dove Foundation, and was endorsed by the Parents Television Council.) After the screening, Laughing Pizza will perform a few of their hits, and guests will have the opportunity to meet Billy, Lisa and Emily, up close and in person!
Laughing Pizza is a real family band that writes and performs all original pop-music for families. Their music videos can be seen every day in more than 18 million homes on PBS stations and TV On-Demand channels around the country. This mom, dad and daughter trio (from right here in Smyrna!) travel across the nation performing at theatres, museums, music festivals, nightclubs, schools, and other venues – including the White House (with Miley Cyrus and The Jonas Brothers). Their live performances are energetic, interactive, dance-filled shows that get kids and parents up and moving, and they have a loyal following all across the country.
When:
February 4 at 11:00am
Where:
Georgia Aquarium in the Grand Oceans Ballroom
How to get tickets:
VIP Red Carpet Premiere tickets include admission to the film, live performance by Laughing Pizza, meet and greet with the band, and red carpet festivities. VIP Red Carpet Premiere tickets are $15 (Children under 1 years old are free).
For an even more spectacular experience, guests can upgrade their tickets to the VIP Red Carpet Premiere Plus ticket, which includes admission to the premiere and its events, as well as admission to the Aquarium and the 3:30 p.m. showing of AT&T Dolphin Tales. VIP Red Carpet Premiere Plus tickets are $34.95 for adults and $28.95 for children. Children ages 1-3 years old need only a film pass, as they are admitted to the Aquarium for free. Premiere Plus Combo tickets are ONLY available until Feb. 2nd ($10 per ticket savings).
Online ticket purchases for the show event itself are through Feb. 3rd online, then tickets must be purchased at the door only.
For more information and to purchase tickets, CLICK HERE. The event is sponsored by Shumate and B-98.5FM. A portion of all proceeds will go to The Georgia Aquarium’s SEA Program.
The VIP Red Carpet Premiere Plus ticket is a fantastic deal you get the whole aquarium experience after a super family show.
I am super excited to celebrate Valentine’s Day in our homeschool this year. I have such great memories of celebrating this holiday in my elementary days.
We’d pick out the just right pack of valentines from the store (the cheap ones without licensed characters LOL) write our name on the back and put them into those cheap little envelopes with a conversation heart stuck in there with the note. We’d have our class list and we’d work down the list writing each classmates name onto the envelope, making sure each kid got a treat.
I remember at some point becoming really aware of what each thing said and making sure the valentines and conversation hearts that were for my boy classmates didn’t say “love” or “kisses” HAHAHA.
Another memorable part of celebrating Valentine’s Day in elementary school was making our mailboxes. Wrapping a shoe box in construction paper and writing my name or cutting it out and gluing it onto the box along with lots of hearts and stickers. That was such a fun craft project that made the holiday extra special.
The kiddo and I are hosting a valentine party at our house for 2 of his homeschool buddies and their moms. I’ve been having too much fun searching the web for inspiration. I’ve compiled a big pin board over on pinterest all about Valentine’s Day, Love, and Happy Hearts.
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I’m also hosting a Valentine Swap with friends and family. The kiddo and I will be sending out one Valentine for everyone who commits to sending us one. It is similar to the Christmas Ornament exchange I’ve done in the past. If you’re interest in swapping valentines with us leave me a comment below and I’ll invite you to the event.
I’m excited that we will be crafting together and making handmade valentines for all of our friends and learning more about love, friendship, and caring for those special people in our lives.
Are you doing anything to prepare for this special day? If you’re looking for a quick Valentine for coworkers, family, or your class check out my Free Printable Valentines.
Next month as you all know there is a little holiday all about LOVE. I’m excited to celebrate this year just thinking of those I love and making hand crafted valentines. My son and I will be hosting a little Valentine’s Day Party at our home for a couple of my homeschooling moms and their kids. I’m getting lots of inspiration from this site.
I love that it is so easy these days to find fantastic inspiration for crafts and diy projects on Pinterest. I found this great hand colored and hand designed hearts. I loved the look of them and wanted to design a few myself, using the computer as my medium of choice!
The hearts come fully colored and all you need to do is print on white cardstock. Once you cut out the hearts you can give them as is, or you can do what I did. I chose coordinating solid colored paper (Staples brand Brights paper) and glued the cut hearts. Then cut around the heart leaving a little colored edge. If you fold your background paper in half and glue towards the folded edge you could have a card that opens. You could just leave these as flat cards too. Speaking of Pinterest, I also got all my color combinations from searching the site. There is just so much inspiration over there!
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You can download your own copy of the Free Printable Valentine Cards HERE.
If you’re a Pinterest junkie like me and you want to pin this post please do!
I’d love to see how you use these printable heart valentines to share the love this holiday. Leave me a comment and a link!
I’m playing along with Project Pinterest with this post, come link up with us.
One of our homeschool goals for January was to make 6 crafts. Here is one that we accomplished today. The kiddo really liked tracing his hand during the Autumn Tree Craft and asked to do it again. This time we made a winter themed scene. We discussed what we think of winter, and what trees look like in winter. Thus our traced hand tree has no leaves, the ground is white with snow and we have a snow man. The kiddo’s cutting is getting better.
We used glue stick to make dots on the blue construction paper then sprinkled glitter on them to make falling snowflakes. This was fun! Our first time using glitter and the kiddo exclaimed “It is so glittery…I guess that’s why they call it glitter!” HAHA We did pretty darn good with the glitter too didn’t get to out of hand and all over the place.
I’m really excited to have done a winter themed craft that is a companion to our Autumn Tree Craft from September. I can’t wait to complete a spring tree and a summer tree. I envision framing each one for the playroom. Here are our two completed hand print trees hanging next to each other.
Happy Crafting!
Happy new year! We've started back to school this week and one of the topics we're working on is telling time and reading a clock.
This topic had been a challenge for my five year old, and myself in teaching it. We've been working on time on and off for a few weeks.
Through this lesson, I've continued to learn more about how to approach challenging topics with him. He often wants to give up when he doesnt get it right away. Since it was his interest that prompted learning about time at this age, I did not allow us to put it on the back burner. I continued to encourage him to take his time and think back to the basics, which one is the hour hand, which is the minute hand, etc.
A challenging part of learning to read the correct hour was that the hour hand didnt stay pointed at the hour. When the hour hand would get close to a new number we discussed how to identify which was the right number. Since we've previously learned counting by 5's, he uses that skill to count out the minutes, which has been pretty successful.
On Monday I set up a quiz using flash cards, he was to fill in the blanks woth the correct hour and minutes. He was reluctant at first as he didn't want to get some thing wrong. Again encouragement and patience was my approach, and not letting him give up. Once he made up his mind to attempt the problems he used the strategies we worked to correctly read the clocks. Once he "got it" he was ready to do another round. He was proud of himself, and I was proud too, especially seeing him work through the mental blocks that often stop him from trying.
I am reinforcing this lesson by asking him to tell me the time throughout the day. We will soon learn to memorize the minutes associated with the numbers on the clock without counting by 5's. Also we will be learning the different ways to say the time, like "quarter after two".
I'm still enjoying homeschooling this little guy, seeing things click in his mind and seeing him grow and overcome challenges is quite amazing.
