It's been a busy few weeks, starting with our Messiah singing, winter/semester concerts, grades, and staff party/formal. Be prepared to be overwhelmed!
At the lower school, we put on a "winter production." It is one performance that involves all 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders. Yep. About 170 cherubs up and singing and grooving on stage. I found a program neutral enough for the population I have, and we started practicing.
Like I might have mentioned, I learned a great deal:
- While I've learned what to do in terms of preparing my kids, I forgot that my super-stars grew up with me. We knew each other and knew what was needed. These kids didn't, though hopefully we'll do better in the future.
- I also found that though all of these kids have functioned quite fine with our classroom material, faced-paced lyrics are quite difficult for those students in the ESOL program.
Those were the two biggest "AHA" moments of the process, but the end product was quite spectacular. It takes a village, right?
I pushed to have us perform at the beautiful theatre at the upper school (instead of the cavernous lower school gym, Sorry, Maria!). This meant we had a lighting guy, I had a walkie-talkie in my ear for the sound guy, and the entire lower school staff helped rotate the kids backstage.
Start off the show with everyone,
Fourth grade professors tell us how to make snow,
Third grade boys are annoyed because the third grade girls
are crying over their snow angels being buried by a snow plow,
(Second graders go crazy with jingle bells about here... the photography team must have been ducking for cover...)
Fifth graders tell us all about snowboarding,
Fourth grade ice fisherman complaining about being cold,
Fifth graders pull out their instrument skills,
Second and third graders sing about the trials and tribulations of postal workers,
And then it's time for the finale!
Second and third grade remind us that tobogganing is so much fun (it's a tango!),
Fourth and fifth tell us how much they love hokey,
even if all of their teeth are knocked out.
There they are!
We even had flashy bows.
This is the calm before the storm of the bows.
Other photo options were more close-ups and through parents' heads during the standing ovation.
Somehow, we managed to get all of those kids home. These two ladies taught the "actors" their lines for the skits between the songs. See? We were so excited to be finished that we had jazz hands.
The coolest action shot (of myself) is probably going to have to become a profile picture. This is choreography and singing along the words, I promise... :o)
Ta-da indeed.
XOXO
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