On December 21st, the 3rd graders at Bainbridge Elementary helped to lead the school in our annual Carol Sing. This year Bainbridge Elementary has a super hero theme, so for our Carol Sing, I wrote an original script to play on the super hero theme.
"Super Hero Holiday" tells the story of Santa and Mrs. Claus before they became the traditional characters that we think of today. In the beginning, Santa was 'Super Santa' and Mrs. Claus was 'Captain Claus', super heroes who's mission it was to save the world's toys from destruction! Super Santa soon realizes that the two super heroes have been fixing the toys of naughty children who do not take care of them and, in fact, there were nice children who did not have any toys at all. Super Santa and Captain Claus decide to change their mission and deliver toys to the nice children of the world instead. After changing their focus, they realized that they will not be able to complete the mission alone. With each obstacle, they add more super heroes to their team (the reindeer) until they are able to complete their mission of delivering toys to the nice children of the world.
25 students volunteered their time during several lunch recesses to practice dramatically reading the script. Both 3rd grade classes learned 2 songs each, which were sung throughout the dramatic reading and the whole school participated in our sing-a-long intermission. This year we had over 75 parents and community members in attendance.
Miss Richter's class opened the program with the song "North Pole Rock 'n' Roll" by Teresa Jennings.
Miss Richter's class also learned an interlude on the orff instruments (xylophones) that I wrote for them. After several sessions of practice, four students were selected to play the interlude every time a new super hero was introduced in the story.
Finally, Miss Richter's class performed "Teamwork" by John Riggio as Captain Claus is trying to convince Super Santa to add more team members to complete their mission.
After the whole school sing-a-long, Mrs. Stough's Class took the stage. They performed "Santa Claus is on His Way" by Teresa Jennings. Several students were selected to play the BoomWhackers.
Mrs. Stough's Class closed the show with "A Super Celebration" by Teresa Jennings.
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