Today we celebrated the St. Martin's day in the kindergarten. St. Martin's Day is a popular festival in Germany in which the children take out a procession in their neighborhood streets and bushes holding self made paper lanterns with light inside and sing St. Martin songs.
Almost two weeks before the festival we had been busy getting the kids to make their lanterns and bake special St. Martin cookies which are only in goose shape and of course sending the necessary emails.
At 5 pm precisely all the parents gathered in the playground from where we started our parade with the children and parents holding their lanterns and singing the very beautiful St. Martin songs "laterne, laterne..", "Ich geh mit meiner laterne..." and "Sank Martin, Sankt Martin..." The parade consisted of taking just three rounds of the kindergarten building and then we all assembled in the gym where Mks and Mcl did a 2 minute skit on St. Martin. and then we went to the hall for refreshments.
On the whole this year's celebration were a lot different from last year which were chaotic, ill organised and grossly clumsy - characteristic of everything done by As.
We enjoyed kinder punch or children's fruit punch the most. Surpirzingly it was a spontaneous invention by Stf who became so angry over something that she just dumped three different juice bottles into the hot fruit tee which she had brewed for the parents; the result was a really nice, refreshing drink! We all asked her what she had used to make it until she started feeling proud of it.
Mks and Mcl's skit was funny. It was something which the children could have done so easily but were never given the chance. Instead Mk spoke the dialogues and Mks posed as St. Martin wearing a helmet, waving a shield and sword and tied a quilt cover on his back. Mcl posed as the poor man shivering in snow; Mks tore the quilt cover, gave the half to Mcl and went away. Then quickly removed his helmet and laid down on the ground when Mcl appeared again as an angel with white wig and wings. Mk completed the story. That was all. How I wish I had the opportunity to get a short play done by children. It would have been far far better than this clumsy performance by adults....
Ah, that reminds me. I met Lm's mother. Lm was the boy who had played king Herod in my Christmas Play last year and exhibited exceptional acting talent and equally great stage fear. He hadn't been able to perform well due to his drawback but I had assured his parents that he only needed exposure and will do extremely fine after few stage acts.
She told me proudly that I was right. When she discovered his acting talent last year on my information she immediately admitted him in an acting school which also does several shows in the city. Now he has performed on stage and formal audience two times and didn't at all feel the stage fear the way he did during my Christmas play. Also, even his acting teachers admit he has exceptional acting talent. He has now been selected for an important role in a theater which was earlier being played by a much older boy. Everybody says he is really fantastic in acting...!
"I will never forget that it was you and your play that discovered this rare talent in my son..!"
Almost two weeks before the festival we had been busy getting the kids to make their lanterns and bake special St. Martin cookies which are only in goose shape and of course sending the necessary emails.
At 5 pm precisely all the parents gathered in the playground from where we started our parade with the children and parents holding their lanterns and singing the very beautiful St. Martin songs "laterne, laterne..", "Ich geh mit meiner laterne..." and "Sank Martin, Sankt Martin..." The parade consisted of taking just three rounds of the kindergarten building and then we all assembled in the gym where Mks and Mcl did a 2 minute skit on St. Martin. and then we went to the hall for refreshments.
On the whole this year's celebration were a lot different from last year which were chaotic, ill organised and grossly clumsy - characteristic of everything done by As.
We enjoyed kinder punch or children's fruit punch the most. Surpirzingly it was a spontaneous invention by Stf who became so angry over something that she just dumped three different juice bottles into the hot fruit tee which she had brewed for the parents; the result was a really nice, refreshing drink! We all asked her what she had used to make it until she started feeling proud of it.
Mks and Mcl's skit was funny. It was something which the children could have done so easily but were never given the chance. Instead Mk spoke the dialogues and Mks posed as St. Martin wearing a helmet, waving a shield and sword and tied a quilt cover on his back. Mcl posed as the poor man shivering in snow; Mks tore the quilt cover, gave the half to Mcl and went away. Then quickly removed his helmet and laid down on the ground when Mcl appeared again as an angel with white wig and wings. Mk completed the story. That was all. How I wish I had the opportunity to get a short play done by children. It would have been far far better than this clumsy performance by adults....
Ah, that reminds me. I met Lm's mother. Lm was the boy who had played king Herod in my Christmas Play last year and exhibited exceptional acting talent and equally great stage fear. He hadn't been able to perform well due to his drawback but I had assured his parents that he only needed exposure and will do extremely fine after few stage acts.
She told me proudly that I was right. When she discovered his acting talent last year on my information she immediately admitted him in an acting school which also does several shows in the city. Now he has performed on stage and formal audience two times and didn't at all feel the stage fear the way he did during my Christmas play. Also, even his acting teachers admit he has exceptional acting talent. He has now been selected for an important role in a theater which was earlier being played by a much older boy. Everybody says he is really fantastic in acting...!
"I will never forget that it was you and your play that discovered this rare talent in my son..!"
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