This past Tuesday night, ACA put on a Christmas performance featuring all students grades pre-kinder through 6th singing classic Christmas carols/hymns, student musicians, a live nativity scene (complete with a donkey Mary rode!), and Santa!
Santa (one of my 7th grade boys) explained at the start of the night that Christmas was not about him or the presents, but rather about celebrating the birth of our Savior. He then passed the MC duties along to a high school student who read Luke's version of "the Christmas story", pausing for songs from various grade levels and the entry of Mary and Joseph.
While some of the grade levels sung to pre-recorded music, there were a few that sung while accompanied by a student group of violins, cellos, guitars and a piano. Some of the group members were in SECOND GRADE. I was impressed!
Above, the pre-kinder and kindergarten students belted out the opening number of the night.
Some of the eighth grade girls (also in my class) donned traditional Paraguayan dresses and danced along to a carol sung by the other students.
Bailey was more intrigued with the programs than the music, but was sure to clap at the end of every number; she claps every time she hears someone else doing it - at church, on TV, in a song from a live performance . . .
The performance ended with all of the students joining together to sing Feliz Navidad to to their parents, friends and teachers gathered on the lawn at school.
No night would be complete without some food, right?! Many of the grade levels (and fundraisers for class trips and graduation) hosted snack tables, selling sodas, ice cream, empanadas, Christmas cookies, fruit cocktail, sushi . . . it was quite a smorgasbord. But delicious!
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