First Time for Everything - Christmas Concert 2021
Today is my first Christmas concert of my teaching career! With COVID, our school is doing a pre-recorded version to share with our entire school. I spent my whole week dreading today! I was so anxious about how the kids would perform, how I would perform, what people would think about our performances.... I have some thoughts that I want to take into account for next year. START SOONER Catch me racing the week of November 22nd, finally deciding on a theme for the concert.... I have learned that is a little too late! I didn't realize so many classrooms would want to get involved with the creation of the concert! We have a ton of Nutcracker art pieces for decoration in the room, there was talk of students creating a back drop, other classrooms (who I don't teach) wanted to be involved... I hadn't considered any of these things! So when I didn't have a theme chosen, I didn't know what to tell all these people (and students!). I think ne...