The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear!

Every December on their last day of music class before Christmas break, the 6th graders carol around the school entering as many classrooms as they can to spread a little Christmas joy! They spend several class periods preparing a carol to sing or play. In the past I had always had students sing, but this year I gave them the option of performing a Christmas song on a recorder or the barred instruments as well. Every single group did an amazing job!


This year I used the new NAfME Model Cornerstone Assessment for performing to guide their learning( Performing MCA). It was a bit lengthy and got to be a lot of paperwork, but I do think it helped the students grow and become aware of what they were doing. I think it's very important for all of the students to get used to picking and preparing a piece on their own and then performing it in front of an audience. Singing for younger kids is a great place to start. Most of the kids said they were nervous in the first couple of rooms, but by the end they were racing to get to just "one more room" before we finished.

Singing for the librarian.

Singing for the Kindergarteners

The secretarys

The lunchroom

The gym!

The instruments were too big to carry around, so they played for every person that walked through the entry!

2nd graders

Some even wore elf hats!

And if they had been to all of the rooms, they stopped people in the hallways!