For the last five years the Someone Special has dance allowed many students, from kindergarten to sixth grade to bring an adult loved one to dance at Big Knob Elementary School.

This year’s dance was held on Feb. 12 and over 200 attended, with each student accompanied by a loved one. Many of the young students brought their parents, while others invited their older siblings or grandparents.

“We’ve sponsored [the dance] for the last four years,” Kristie Mohrbacher said. Both she and her husband, John Mohrbacher, have sponsored all but one year of the dance.

The dance has served the students well over the years. It opens up the opportunity for the young students to create a strong bond between themselves and an adult and also allows them to incorporate an adult into their lives. By being invited by a student, an older loved one can also have a sense of feeling wanted by a young student.

Located in the school’s gym, the dance had many perks to draw students and the loved one to attend.

“[The dance] is a lot of fun and it’s everything I expected,” Sixth grader Alexis Surenda, who has attended the dance for the last three years, said.

The dance had many activities to keep the students active such as limbo contests, the electric slide, a father-son dance and a mother-daughter dance. The activities even included a fun dance to keep the students close to their loved ones.

In this dance, each couple were to get a newspaper and stand upon the newspaper. They would dance on top of them and the judges would keep a lookout for people who stopped dancing or stepped off the paper. After each section of the dance, the paper was to be folded in half, causing the two to be closer together. The end of the activity concluded to a winning couple.

“My favorite thing [about the dance] is getting to dance with your family and having fun,”
Surenda said.

The dance also held over 15 raffle baskets for the families. Some baskets included things such as candy and treats while others included toys and books from the hit movie, “Frozen.”

“I wish I could come again next year, but it’s only from kindergarten to sixth-grade,” Surenda said.

Not only could the students spend time with their loved ones, they could also spend time playing and dancing with their classmates. The beginning of the dance had students running and dancing with their friends while the adults would take it easy and talk with fellow parents.

“We [Skybacher Ministries] hope for it to be a great annual event and hope it brings the whole Freedom community together, both young and old,” John Mohrbacher said.