Movie

I had no idea I could get so exhausted from watching a movie with my class...

Last week for religion we read through the Nativity story in Luke and Matthew. Monday, we did a play about the resurrection written by one of the 6th graders. Today, we watched The Nativity Story, a wonderfully historical movie of Jesus's birth. It puts me in the Christmas mood every time I watch it. It's only an hour and 40 minutes, but it took us two and a half hours to watch it because we had to keep pausing it. Part of the pauses were to explain what was going on and why the movie people put the stuff in there (and if it was in the bible or if it just got added for dramatic effect), but a bunch of pauses were to get wiggles out or to get kids to stop talking.

The first half went great! After that they got restless. One boy had made popcorn for snack. He decided to share with a classmate by dumping some over the back of the couch on top of that classmate. The dumper said that the classmate had been holding his hands out. The classmate said he didn't actually want any. The end of the story is that popcorn ended up all over the floor and in the couch. I had them vacuum the mess up. The vacuum ended up staying in our classroom tipped over on the floor the rest of the day because none of them could bother to put it back where they got it. Yeah, that's the kind of day we had.

Sigh. Lots of meltdowns.

Program practice went super well today! The bell songs got added in and sounded pretty good. The costume people remembered to go where they were supposed to and when. The songs sound AMAZING! Walking out went pretty good too. We're going to practice walking in tomorrow.