Every year we have a Christmas program at school, and it is a HUGE deal. We spend about 2 months getting ready. The music teacher puts together an indoor program, which is a lot like the choir plays that we would do at church when we were small. Each grade has different songs that they sing, and then there is a Christmas storyline which different kids audition for. Parents come and take pictures and all the teachers dress up super nice and we all have some kind of role or job to do, whether it's watching a class in their classroom until it's their turn to go on stage, being a "runner" who goes back and forth getting the classes when it's their turn, or helping direct and set up. There are always a ton of things to do and it can be stressful, but always worth it in the end. Then the program moves outside where the soccer field is converted into a giant area filled with tables and a huge stage. The stage is always decorated by the seniors and they have come up with some pretty cool backgrounds. Then dinner is catered by a company and we all eat and listen to the high school band play. Then each grade presents some kind of song/dance/performance that they have spent months working on and putting together. It's a lot of work for 5 minutes on stage, but SO fun to get to see each class perform. It's split up into 3 different nights... kindergarten is on Thursday, Grades 1-5 are on Friday, and Grades 6-12 are on Saturday. The kids have a lot of fun, and it's nice to get dressed up and get to hang out with the kids. The teachers also have to put together a performance.
It was a bit of a scramble this year because we didn't have as much time as we normally would. Because of the flood, we missed about 3 weeks of school when we would have been planning for the program, so instead of having 7 weeks, we only had about 4 to get ready. It was crazy trying to figure out what to do, but the kids enjoyed it.
We ended up doing something really simple... the students in grade 4 learned the words to the song "Welcome to Our World" and then we made candle holders out of plastic bottles. The boys in the middle "got" to hold a sign (mainly because I didn't trust them to hold a lit candle!) but in the end, we used paper to make pretend candles anyway. Then we had a Mary and Joseph and one of the students insisted that he get to be "the world".
I can't even tell you how proud I am of them! Some of my students cried when they first heard the song... I thought they were playing, but it really did touch them!
So here is the video of my class and a few pictures from the 3 nights. Enjoy!
(the video is too big to put the whole thing on here, so I had to cut some of it out... at the beginning the students read some verses about the Son of Man coming to save the earth)
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