Our Family of Four: A Flea On Santa's Tree

McKenna was in her very first play this week. Her kindergarten class performed a play called A Flea on Santa's Tree. McKenna played the part of the lead elf.

The play was basically a fun story of how we came to put angels on top of our Christmas Trees.

McKenna had the opening lines of the play:
"T'was Christmas Eve
and Santa's tree was naked
at the top.
He did his best
to make it nice
but then he had to stop."

All 5 elves said the following lines together after each thing tried to be the top of the tree:
"Thank you but no,
you're not quite right
for now you just won't do.
There's more in line
so please step down
don't call us, we'll call you!"

Then she also had the ending line after Santa picked the angel to top his tree:
"T'was Christmas Eve
and Santa's tree looked great
and now you know

then everyone said,
"That's how the angel got up there
so now you all can go!"

They did a rehearsal the day before they performed the play. That afternoon, McKenna's teacher came into my classroom and told me that McKenna was the "star of the show" she said that she did awesome with her parts, expecially with expression in her voice and hand gestures.

They first performed the play for the older kids in our school 3rd - 6th graders. I got to go in and take pictures because my class was in the library. It went really well...I was really impressed to see how well McKenna did. Her teacher was right, she did an awesome job and definitely had the best expression of anyone in her class.

For the 2nd performance the parents were invited to come watch as well as the 1st and 2nd grade classes. Another teacher sat with my class so I got to sit with Jason, Grandma Brenda and Mimi...I taped it this time. McKenna...oh my word...she got up there and did her opening lines even better than she did the first time. Then she turned around to walk back behind the table, completely lost her footing and fell right on her butt! The audience let out an audible gasp...LOL! Gotta love my girl though, she stood right up and went right to the table to work on the toys like she was supposed to...even looked down at us and gave us a big smile! She preceeded to say her lines and do everything she was supposed to do. She was even more animated with her hand gestures than she was during the first play. It was really adorable!!

I asked her later on if it hurt when she fell and she said no, then I asked if it hurt her feelings and she said no. She told Jason later on that night that she thought she did really well in the play except for when she fell. He told her that he didn't think anyone really noticed because they were looking at the kids who were coming to say their lines at the top of the christmas tree...maybe they were, who knows. LOL!

It must not have bothered her too much because now she says she wants to be in more plays. She was really sad that she wasn't going to be doing her kindergarten play anymore. So, over Christmas Break I'm going to look into some local places that offer acting/plays...etc. for little kids.

Here are some pictures: (for some reason the pictures are in the opposite order of what they should be...I don't feel like fixing them!) You can click on them to make the pictures bigger.

After the play: (McKenna was saying, No more pictures!)