School Christmas Concert / Cookie Making
Well, now that I've almost finished the week - starting with the concert on Sunday and ending at 6:30 tonight with my last cookie making class, I guess I'm ready to post some pictures ;)
Around 30 students participated in the concert - from 2 years old to 11 years old. They sang lots of Christmas songs and did a little Frozen puppet theatre. I interviewed each student according to what they had learned. The kids seem to have had fun :)
Some of the kids are looking to the right because that is where I am :D
This little snowflake song is soooo cute! I wish I had video.
Interview time! What's your name?
Frozen play. This was very difficult, but the kids did very well with their lines!
Christmas cookie making has been a tradition since my mom used to teach in the home in Japan all those years ago. I have such good memories of these times that I wanted to do the same when I started teaching. My mom used to use a sugar cookie recipe, but I use a simpler and non-runny recipe (so I can pile more cookies on one cookie sheet!). It is a shortbread recipe and I always get students asking me for it. It is so easy and so good. 5 cups flour, 2 cups butter and 1 cup brown sugar. That's it. I leave the butter out to soften and then kneed the ingredients until it makes one big ball of cookie dough. Divide it up into 13 separate balls and I have dough for 13 kids.
They cut the cookies with the various christmas cutters, then decorate them with sprinkles and chocolate chips and nuts and raisins - what ever they feel like piling on - then we bake them. Here are some of the kids enjoying cookie making this year.
The boy on the left just made a whole bunch of tiny stars with one chocolate chip on each :D
Ready to pop in the oven!
Audrey participates in as many classes as she can. She loves making Christmas cookies :)
While we waited for the cookies to bake, we put our stickers in our calendars.
All done!!
Ready to eat!
Around 30 students participated in the concert - from 2 years old to 11 years old. They sang lots of Christmas songs and did a little Frozen puppet theatre. I interviewed each student according to what they had learned. The kids seem to have had fun :)
Some of the kids are looking to the right because that is where I am :D
This little snowflake song is soooo cute! I wish I had video.
Interview time! What's your name?
Frozen play. This was very difficult, but the kids did very well with their lines!
Christmas cookie making has been a tradition since my mom used to teach in the home in Japan all those years ago. I have such good memories of these times that I wanted to do the same when I started teaching. My mom used to use a sugar cookie recipe, but I use a simpler and non-runny recipe (so I can pile more cookies on one cookie sheet!). It is a shortbread recipe and I always get students asking me for it. It is so easy and so good. 5 cups flour, 2 cups butter and 1 cup brown sugar. That's it. I leave the butter out to soften and then kneed the ingredients until it makes one big ball of cookie dough. Divide it up into 13 separate balls and I have dough for 13 kids.
They cut the cookies with the various christmas cutters, then decorate them with sprinkles and chocolate chips and nuts and raisins - what ever they feel like piling on - then we bake them. Here are some of the kids enjoying cookie making this year.
The boy on the left just made a whole bunch of tiny stars with one chocolate chip on each :D
Ready to pop in the oven!
Audrey participates in as many classes as she can. She loves making Christmas cookies :)
While we waited for the cookies to bake, we put our stickers in our calendars.
All done!!
Ready to eat!