So Cute!

The state appropriates some money to arts organizations in Utah. One such program is the Utah Festival Opera Company, which runs Opera By Children. This year, a second-grade class from Crestview Elementary in Holladay is using some of the money to write (and they will perform) their own opera. Here are unedited excerpts from letters the second-graders sent me.

Thank you for the opera money, I am 8+ How old are you? [40 this summer]

Our Opera is called The Snowy Ice Berg I want to be a polar bear. I am seven years old I have brown hair and Im a girl.

I like chess. Do you know how to play chess? [sounds like a hustle to me]

I am going to be a penguin and the tit tel is Snowy Iceberg and Hanna's Grandma is doing the piano and it is fun.

I'm eight years old. My favorite number is nine. [won't next year be grand!]

I can't wait till we get to do our opera!! I want to be a penguin. It goes like this, We are going to Florida. Then we get stuck in Antartica. Your friend, . . . [ah, brevity]

I have a pichter for you on the back. [a beautiful mountain, cloud, and sun].

This is one of my very favorite things about the legislature -- the letters from school children, the visits to their schools and their visits to the Capitol.