The Big Sandy Mountaineer -

It's always the same. A wonderful celebration of Christmas is the Elementary Christmas Concert. This year was the biggest turnout. The auditorium was almost full. It started with the 4th-grade class playing recorders. They played Good King Wenceslas and Snowfall.

The 5th grade band, in their very first concert, played Go Tell Aunt Rhody, A Mozart Melody, and Jingle Bells. Every student in the 5th grade must play in the band, so it's a delightful concert with squeaks and squawks.

The 6th-grade band, with more than a year's worth of practice, played Kum Ba Yah, Linus and Lucy, and Up On The Housetop.

Special musical pieces were next by students that had done extra practice: Lexie Jones and Eden did an instrumental duet playing Ode to Joy, Bailey LeFurgery and Kacey Weaver with a clarinet duet with Frosty the Snowman, White Christmas was played with a quartet made of Levon Myers, Davie Overbay, jack Sant, and Brydin Wilson-Brown, and Lexie Jones played a clarinet Solo with Frosty the Snowman.

I love all the fancy clothes on the little kids. The Kindergarten and First grade sang Evergreens, Deck the Halls, and Holiday Lights.

Second and third-grade students sand Here Comes Santa Claus, Pfun with Pfeffernusse, and It's Great to be a Kid at Christmas time.

The fourth, fifth, and sixth-grade students sang Baloo Loo Lammy, Most Wonderful Time of the Year, and my favorite (because the kids loved singing it), Fruitcake Toss

Fruitcake toss "Christmas has come and Christmas has gone, but one thing was left behind. It was a gift from one of your kin. You thought they were being kind. (MUAHAHAHA) Fruitcake will stay as long as you let it, causing despair and woe.(Waaaaah!) If you can't eat it or just regift it, tossing's the way to go! Fruit cake toss. Fruitcake toss. Fruitcake toss. Throwing your fruitcake is most rewarding, Seeing how far it flies! Then there are those that know how to launch it, sending it through the skies! Some use a sling shot, some us a launcher, some use launcher, some use a trebuchet. What a great way to get rid of fruitcake and brighten up you Fruitcake toss. Fruitcake toss. Fruitcake toss. Fruitcake toss! Over hand, underhand, in cellophane or in a can. In your yard or countryside. Either way is bonafide! Fruitcake here, fruitcake there, fruitcakes flying everywhere. See just how far you throw. Tell that fruitcake, "time to go!" Fruitcake toss. Fruitcake toss. Fruitcake toss. Fruitcake toss. Spoken: Fruitcake!"

They laughed, did actions, and bounced up and down. Some songs get a little weak when they don't feel confident about the words, but NOT this song. This song was loud and active all the way through. And when I asked which song was their favorite. It was this one.

Every single student got on the stage for the last song of the night, Christmas Night. A celebration for sure.