This week we had our Christmas party and first annual Christmas Concert.
The children practiced playing the drums with Mr. Uichi and Miss Misako for a long time and it certainly showed in their performance. The mothers were also surprised when the students came out in their cute new band uniforms, seen below
There were two drum groups, the Piccolo group, comprised of the younger children, and the Tam Tam group, with some of the older students.
The Piccolo group played Carmen by Bizet and Minuet in G major, while the Tam Tam group played Minuet in G major and the Nutcracker by Tchaikovsky.
For the parents of the younger group, it was a great opportunity to preview the level they can expect their children to achieve next year.
After the drum concert we all got together and enjoyed singing and dancing with songs for each class, as well as songs for everybody to sing together. There were even some special performances by some of the mothers with one performance featuring a keyboard and violin!! The children were so well behaved during the performance and paid wrapped attention.
There was also a performance by all of the mothers, dancing and singing that Japanese Christmas standard, “Last Christmas” by Wham. Mr Aaron wanted to sing “White Christmas” by SPEED, but nobody agreed that this was a true Christmas standard.
Finally all the students joined in a rendition of “We wish you a merry Christmas” which featured students singing, dancing and playing the drums, triangles, castanets, tambourines and hand bells. What a show!!!
Merry Christmas everybody!!!