The Christmas Program- DTD Christian Academy

The kids had a great Christmas program at their school on the 19th of Dec.  It's a first for us.  Our church is too huge for the kids to get to do things like plays, performance or special music.  Public school doesn't offer anything close other than violin lessons; and music was least of our concerns--- they needed to learn to read, write, add, subtract first.

The night began with music from some of the middle schoolers.

The the keyboarding students performed.  All but one of them are in Jayna's class.  Jayna looked quite swell, and certainly cute at her keyboards with the rest of the kids.  But if you think I fell for it, no no I didn't.  My daughter slowly moved her fingers, never far enough down to make a noise.  She had been afraid of messing up.  Don't worry no one heard her make a mistake.... because she only pretended to play the three songs.

Then, it was time for the Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd graders to perform.  They did the cutest song.  I wish I could have gotten a better video, but I also wanted pictures--- such is life :-)

 

All the kids were dogs.  Jayna was a Labrador retriever.   If you've never heard the song the 12 days of Christmas, you should TOTALLY listen to the full song here: 12 Dogs of Christmas Song

This is a clip of their performance of it:

Then they performed a song with bells, read a cute poem and sang away in a manger.

Then it was time for the play that the 3rd-8th graders performed for us.  They did exceptionally well.  Their play was called "All I Want for Christmas"  Here is the description of it:
All Lindsay wants for Christmas is... everything she sees! And while she's pouting over her mother's true words about why we celebrate Christmas, Lindsay finds some new friends... cool “toy” friends... that come alive to her. Together Lindsay, Miss Glamour Doll, Chucko the fluffy teddy bear, the action figure Captain Courage, and the ever popular Jack-In-the-Box tell the story of the first Christmas and discover the true meaning of the season. This 40-minute musical teaches a wonderful lesson about the ultimate gift that God gave to us. All I Want for Christmas has traditional carols, delightful “character songs” .
There were 7 main character parts.  The rest of the students dressed up as a toy of their choice and helped sing the non-solo songs.  Anthony typically would stand still and not perform if they would sing for a special music class in school or a huge children's church special.  But check out this boy.

 Pictures of the "toys" on both sides of the stage

It was so exciting to watch the kids so comfortable and confident at their school.  Yes the girlie won't keyboard, but I blame some of that on her vision issue due to the required focus it obviously takes and something we know her eyes don't do properly.  They have friends, they have fun, they are growing new talents.  Best of all no controversy on if the performance is "too Christian" or a Christmas carol may have a religious word within it.

This is Jayna's favorite school friend--- her 13 y/o buddy Brandon, who I get daily updates on from his hair style, to how they spent recess, to if she saw him in the hallway.  He is quite sweet and is friendly to Jayners.

The big performance tired a sweet boy out