We've tried to make this week fun for our students. We're having extra assemblies (reptile man and our holiday sing-along), a door decorating contest, ginger bread houses are being created, and special treats are being shared in the classrooms. Our staff adopts families from our school to make sure all of our kids have a nice Christmas. (Some local churches adopt families as well.) Our student community is pretty low income and so many of our students don't have much to look forward to without support from community members. The kids are having fun and so are the adults.
When I first came to this school I started the tradition of having a sing along on the last hour of the last day before we go out on our 2 week break. My music teacher was skeptical, but being a really good person, she did as I asked and created a wonderful powerpoint with words and pictures, synched to music for the kids to sing to. The whole school (more than 600 kids) gather to sing fun holiday songs. We sing all of the favorites like Frosty, Rudolph, and Jingle Bells. We always end with Feliz Navidad which the kids love. More than half of our students are from Mexico and Central America and they LOVE this song! I had no idea until the first time we sang it and I thought the roof was going to come off of the building!
I'm just enjoying the children and appreciating our teachers and their love and commitment to teaching and learning. I'm looking forward to the time with my family as we celebrate and enjoy each other. In the meantime, we're having fun at school!
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