It was Christmas party night, yay! We were welcomed in to see pigs in blankets, pizza and mini chocolate chip muffins laid out on the table. One member also brought packets of crisps for us to all enjoy. We gathered excitedly around the piano and warmed up our voices. Kate asked if we wanted to banana or dum dum dada and the majority voted for bananas. Hilarity ensued as we went over the rhythm exercise of Bananas and Mangoes but Kate then challenged us to take out the word mango! We still had to click though, we just couldn’t say the word. We then tried to take out the word banana, which was even harder and we all just ended up laughing.
Kate then put us in a circle with her in the middle. She closed her eyes and spun around and around. When she stopped, she pointed and whoever she pointed to, got to choose their favourite Christmas song to sing. We did this twice then all sat to enjoy the nibbles and chat.
Whilst we were around the table, Kate surprised us with her big Christmas challenge. She had written our names on pieces of paper and folded them up. We were to be put into teams which were decided by Tom pulling the names out of a ‘hat’ – actually Kate’s hands because she hadn’t brought a hat. Oh well. Once the teams had been decided we were challenged to create a short skit to perform to the others. The skit must be about the class and must include a Christmas song which should be sung,
One team decided they were going to use Kate and their skit was Kate teaching them how to sing ‘Rocking around the Christmas Tree’. Kate said that she would, but only if the team members wrote what she had to say and, told her exactly what to do so it couldn’t be seen as cheating.
Kate then decided that the other team should involve Tom. They decided that Tom would be one of the students. One team member played Kate and another played Tom and pretended to conduct and play the piano whilst the ‘class’ sang ‘Merry Christmas Everyone’.
It was decided both teams where amazing so everyone won a chocolate lollipop. We then spent some time showing Kate and Tom our piano playing abilities. One member performed so beautifully and from memory so they also won an achievement prize – a cute little Christmas gonk.
Right before we left we got told the exciting news that when we come back in January, we’ll be learning to play ukuleles as well as singing! We cannot wait!