Thoughts on

Concerts

Things to keep in mind

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Are all grades going to sing together?

Where are the kids going to stand?

How long can the students stand for with out getting fidgety?

Are there enough spaces for parents to be?

Are the words going to be memorized? If not how are the words
going to be?

Bowing?

Snacks?

Who will make programs?

Programing
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How you would serve a meal

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Appetizer

Main Course

Dessert

All three are important, remember to include them

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Know your audience

Find out what has been done before what was liked/not liked

Find out what other teachers in the area are doing

Find out the other concert dates

Translate

Programs know who is going to make them

Count backwards from the concert

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I started teaching the Christmas Concert music in early Nov

I started teaching the April/May concert music at the start of the year

How can you get the community involved

Advocate

Invite the community and the school board

Things are going to go wrong

Non sacred holiday music

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Over the River

Deck the Halls

Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer

Jingle Bell Rock

Up on a House Top

We Wish you a Merry Christmas

Jolly Old Saint Nicholas

Have a Happy Holiday

Here comes Santa Claus

White Christmas

Must be Santa

Winter Wonderland

Feliz Navidad

Jingle Bells

Its Beginning to Look a lot like

Christmas

Frosty the Snowman

Christmas Time is Here

Let it Snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow

Auld Lang Syne

Marshmallow World

Here we come a Wassailing

Holly Jolly Christmas

12 Days of Christmas