Tomorrow is the big day!!! 

Everyone has worked so hard to make these performances come together, thank-you all SO much! I just have a couple last minute notes concerning Friday. First, just a sweet smelling reminder!  The room can get a little warm and the kids are all in pretty tight quarters, it might be good to remind your kids to put on their deodorant for the good of all! Thanks! Our performance times are 10:00 a.m. and 7:30 p.m. In the morning, if you could arrive at 9:15 that would be wonderful, and in the evening 7:00 would be a great time to get there. In the morning, when choir kids get to the church, if they could sit down in the fellowship hall to receive their Jewish stars from Mrs. Bootsma and be ready to walk in as soon as the performance is ready to start that would be great. My aunt would also like to meet with all the actors on the stage before the morning performance. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! 

One more sleep!!! :)

10 more sleeps until the play!!! Yoot!! Here's a few notes about this weeks rehearsal...
It will be on Friday at 10:30, and we're asking that all the moms come in for about 10 minutes so that we can touch base about a few things. After that you'll all be free to go. :) I also have a quick note from Charlene to all of you.

Things are starting to come together for the play.  The choir is doing wonderful and I'm so proud of how well they have done!  For these last few practices, if the kids could really focus on learning the words for the final chorus of 'I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day' that would be great.  They're a still a bit shaky on it.  :)  I've posted the words below as well as a YouTube link of the song to make it easy to practice and listen to!

And the bells they're ringing (Peace on Earth)Like a choir they're singing (Peace on Earth)And with our hearts we'll hear themPeace on earth, good will to men
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o you hear the bells they're ringing? (Peace on Earth)The life the angels singing (Peace on Earth)Open up your heart and hear them (Peace on Earth)

Peace on earth, good will to menPeace on earth, Peace on earthPeace on earth, Good will to men 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F756Mjxxrvc

Make sure you all work really hard to learn this! See you all Friday!!!

Ten Boom Museum Virtual Tour

I thought I'd pass on a link, if you're interested in finding out more about Corrie ten Boom and her family...and want to see the actual hiding place, without travelling to the Netherlands! :) The ten Boom museum website has an amazing virtual tour...the "tour guide" leads you through the house, tells the story of the hiding place, and gives additional information about the family and the house. It was neat to be able to show this to our kids tonight. You can check it out here (click on "Virtual Tour"):

http://www.tenboom.org/

Looking forward to the 15th!
Holly