Third-Graders Perform "Salute to South Carolina"

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Did you know that Hickory Tavern is the only town in South Carolina with an alligator crossing?



Or that two famous South Carolinians are Chubby Checker (from Andrews)



and Dizzy Gillespie (from Cheraw)?



Did you know that South Carolina has 43 different kinds of snakes--and that seven of them are poisonous?



Were you aware that there is a moonwalker among our famous South Carolinians--astronaut Charles Duke--



or that Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion was nicknamed the Swamp Fox?



Well, if you wanted to know everything there is to know about the Palmetto State, you should have come to the third grade production of "Salute to South Carolina." The annual performance, informatively scripted and well rehearsed by third grade teachers Tammy Brearley, Sue Jaggard, Martha Wrenn, and Vanessa Zadel, is a culminating activity of the students' yearlong study of South Carolina history, geography, and culture.



The young students had some big shoes to fill.



Andrew Jackson, seventh President of the United States, was there,



so was U.S. Senator Strom Thurmond, who told about his career and concluded by exclaiming, "Oh, to be 100 years old!"



The colorful production featured students demonstrating the official state dance, the shag,



and, for a bit of nostalgia for the parents in the audience, the twist.



Sports figures made an appearance, including the new Greenville Drive,



and Greenvillians George Hincapie, who has helped Lance Armstrong win several Tours de France,



and golf pro Jay Haas (a CCES parent).



The students sang songs,



impersonated such historical figures as Emily Geiger,



and delivered their lines into the microphone so that all in the audience could hear.



And what they heard



was both informative



and delightful,

in the way only third-graders can be.

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