Christmas Concert Note 3 – Costumes and Accessories

Dear parents and guardians,

I want to put you in the picture as to what is currently happening regarding the concert.

As most of you have been told by the children the story chosen for Pre-Junior B is that of Alice In Wonderland.  As you are aware the costumes for the concert were purchased online.  So you are saved the tedious job of looking for costumes yourselves.  In fact most of the costumes have arrived and this week the children will be trying them on.

I have split the children into three groups and each group is participating in a particular dance as well as a in a general dance.  We have started full blown rehearsals this week so our day is more hectic than usual.

Two groups have started rehearsing whilst the other group will start their rehearsal tomorrow.   The other children watch when their group is not doing their part. This is important for them to get the general feel of all the performance.  It also helps if they need to replace a friend who might be sick on the day.

This note indicates what accessories and hairstyles have to be worn during rehearsal day (12^th December) and on concert day 13^th December.  All have to wear a thick jacket on top since it is quite cold at St. Agatha Auditorium School in Rabat.

If you do not have any of the following please speak to me.

What is needed:

Alice – Martina needs –

• A half sleeved winter vest underneath (As the costume has half sleeves).
• Black ballerina shoes

(I have the rest of the items tights, headband and costume ready.)

The Queen – Emmalene needs –

• A Half sleeved winter vest. (As the costume has half sleeves).
• Red Tights
• Black ballerina shoes

(I have the costume, crown and wand.)

Twiddle Dum and Twiddle Dee – Joshua and Floyd need –

• A winter vest underneath
• Dark blue school shoes
• (I have the costume and red tights for underneath.)

Chesire Cat – Sophie

• White polo neck
• White tights
• Dark navy blue school shoes
• (Waiting for the costume, has been shipped).

Rabbits – Neil, Bernard, Noah, Julian and Jean

• A white polo neck
• Dark blue school shoes
• (I have the costume and headpiece).

Mad Hatters – Timothy and Jake

• White polo neck
• Dark blue school shoes
• (I have the costume)

The playing cards – Maurizio, Olda, Mattia, Gabrial and Isaac

• Black polo neck
• Black socks
• Dark blue school shoes
• (I have the card costume, leggings, head piece.)

The flowers – Giannina, Adaya, Maha, Zara, Emily.

• White polo neck
• White tights.
• Black ballerina shoes
• (Waiting for the costumes. They have been shipped.)

Later on I will send you the hairstyle guidelines especially for the girls.

If you have any queries let me know.

Regards

Ms. Geraldine

 

Reverse Advent Calendar

This week we started our special topic about Christmas.

In fact today we had our religion lesson and we focused on the true meaning of Christmas – The Birth of Jesus Christ.  We started looking at the nativity story.  We will be dividing the story into two parts.

The first part is the journey of Mary and Joseph to Bethlehem which I read from The Christmas Story Book and at the same time took out our class crib showing the characters to the children.

Mary, Joseph, Baby Jesus who was still to be born, the animals and so on.  We also took a closer look at the words used in the book.  We created a parallel between what existed in those days and today.

For instance the inn was the equivalent to todays’ modern hotel.  The inn keeper was the man who runs the hotel.  In Jesus’ time they had animals which they kept in a place called the stable.  The manger used to put Jesus in was truly the place where the animals ate their food from.

We saw why Mary and Joseph had to travel on the donkey to go to Bethlehem.  Why they had to travel using a donkey and not a car like we have today.  We finished the lesson by listening to some Christmas Carols.

The Nativity Story online –

Little Donkey –

Just like Mary and Joseph were preparing themselves for the arrival of Jesus even we are preparing ourselves for this big day.  In class we discussed what a good deed means and I encouraged the children to do one good deed a day.

I will be uploading these good deeds on the blog so that you can remind them and help them carry these good deeds out when they are at home.

I also explained what an Advent Calendar means.  We will also be setting up a reverse Advent calendar in class in which we will be asking the children to donate a food item which will be given to those in need.

Each day I will be asking a different group of 4 children to get in an item to build up our stock of food starting Monday 4^th December.

I will be putting up this list on the blog tomorrow providing you with further details too.