Christmas

Christmas has been a whirlwind here. We started with all things Christmas in November and have been doing nothing else since it seems like. Our school has a classroom decorating contest, but we have to use all recyclables. That was a challenge, but it ended up looking really good. We made candy-canes and wreaths out of toilet paper rolls, a Christmas tree out of handprints cut out of green plastic bags, snow from shredded paper, and boxes the kids brought in to wrap presents. We also made a TON of snowflakes, and decorated some of them with glitter.









We also had 2 staff parties, one of which we had to come up with a performance, that was also performed at the outdoor program. I think we did a pretty good job!








We also have 2 nights worth of a Christmas program, and each night has 2 parts, an indoor and an outdoor program. We spent many hours preparing our 4th grade performance... a kind of acting out of the 12 days of Christmas. The outdoor program consists of all the grades performing some kind of dance, skit, or song. The indoor program is put on by the music teacher and each grade had a song or several songs to sing. After all the hours of preparation, practices, and decorating, it all ended after a few hours on a Friday and Saturday night. It was fun though, and I've already got ideas for next year.