Christmas Partying & Performing

Banks had his class Christmas party the Monday before Christmas.  Mrs. Morris let me and the other homeroom mother have free rein of the classroom for 1 hour.  They started off with a little game of unscrambling Christmas time words with candy for the prizes.

Then they made a salt dough ornament...



Then they decorated a Christmas tree brownie with icing and candy...



Can you tell Mrs. Morris gave them all reindeer antlers for Christmas?



I am just glad they haven't gotten too grown for a good old fashion Christmas party.  They were so excited!  She also gave them a $5.00 Books-a-Million gift certificate in their goodie bag.  Wow!  We can't wait to go pick out a new book!

Some of the class girls...



Savannah, Carlie and Emily

Mary Reese had her Christmas party on Tuesday morning.  She had to take a "stocking stuffer" for everyone in her class.  She took peppermint erasers.  Waiting to stuff the stockings...



Emma, Towns, Mary Reese & Eliza

The whole class with their stockings...



What a cute group of kiddos!  She ended up with some really cute things...pencils, crafty items, ornaments, a certificate for a scoop of ice cream at the local parlor...

[I stole these two pictures from Tara...hope you don't mind?  We loved our salt dough peace sign ornament.  I made it home in one piece and quickly went on the tree in MR's room.]

After lunch it was time for the big Christmas Extravaganza muscial performance...



Fabulous Christmas classics with a twist...sure to get even the Grinch in the Christmas Spirit!

Mary Reese is on the top row...the second from the right side.  She has been practicing the songs, the moves and her lines for weeks.  She definitely had all the words and moves down!  One of her favorite songs...



Frosty Boy aka Frosty the Snowman

Then it came time for her lines [the line she rehearsed a few hundred times, so many times that even Owen had them down pat]...



Then for the finale [part of it anyway]...



Too bad my camera was full and I didn't even realize it!  I did find some really interesting videos shot by my children.  Guess I need to hide the video camera better.  Oh well, I got her during her lines which was the most important part!

I am always amazed at what the music, drama and art teacher can accomplish with that many kids and only a few practices.

The last two days of school before Christmas Vacation were jam packed...and then fun was only beginning!