On March 13, 2008, Mr. Schmidt's third grade class from Orchard Elementary School ventured out once again to visit their friends at Pillsbury Manor.  They have been forging friendships with many of the residents this year, commencing with an oral history project in the beginning of the year.  During their most recent visit, the students put on a talent show.  The show included magic, dance, comedy, poetry, and a skit with an optical illusion involving a leprechaun.

This traveling act had it all, including a stage crew and videographer.  The performers all agreed that the show could not have gone on without the talented members of the stage crew assisting them and making sure they had all the props they needed, when they needed them.  The stage crew members were Emma, Kyle, Allison, and Britany.  With the help of classmate Ethan's video expertise, the show was preserved for many more audiences to come.

A group of three students chose to do magic.  One student, Everett, worked his magic alone, as assistant Sophia helped from the wings.  Everyone agreed that one of her most clever lines was, " Everett-kazaam!"  His favorite trick was the disappearing watch.  the other magic act was performed by tow students, Jack and Harrison.  the team performed several magic tricks.  Jack's favorite trick was a disappearing trick using three cups and three balls.

Tenzin opened the show with some very funny knock-knock jokes.  He was assisted by Britany who answered, "Who's there?" to each of Tenzin's jokes.  Tenzin opened the act with a very funny joke.  "Knock knock."  "Who's there?"  "Let us."  "Let us who?"  "Let us in!"  Britany opened the cardboard door (also painted on the other side for Rachel's dance floor) to reveal two heads of  lettuce waiting to come in!

Some groups performed comedy routines and skits.  One of  the groups consisted of Noah, as Patty the leprechaun, Sophia, as Patty's arms, and Dylan as Peter.  The optical illusion of a realistic two foot leprechaun standing on a chair was created using a chair, a beard, a hat, a shirt, a tee-shirt, shorts and boots.  Peter was chasing after Patty's pot of gold.  He found it and offered Patty some things in trade for the pot.  Patty refused all of the offers except for the last one, a nice cream pie!  Some favorite parts that really got the crowd laughing were when Patty got a cream pie thrown in his face and then did a karate move on Peter for throwing the pie at him.

Five of the students gave dance performances.  Two performances were solo acts by Ava, who danced to the song, We Are Family and Rachel, who danced and did a lip sync to the song I Will Survive.  There was a very funny moment as a result of missing a cue.  Stage assistant Emma tossed a cardboard guitar to the performer when she wasn't looking.  It lightly bonked her on the head, but Rachel laughed, as did everyone else, and kept right on performing.  The other performance was a trio of students performing a gymnastics dance routine and their names are Jessica, Asia and Jazmine.  There were many difficult moves that the trio performed with ease, all while keeping perfect rhythm.

The poet of the day was Harrison.  Harrison recited a poem by an anonymous author title, I'm Glad the Sky I s Painted Blue, and Auguries of Innocence by William Blake.  The audience listened as Harrison read, "I'm glad the sky is painted blue, and the Earth is painted green, with such a lot of nice fresh air, all sandwiched in between."  Harrison created color coordinated sandwich pieces to illustrate the poem and made a sandwich as he recited the poem.