During the last four days of school, students will be carol singing in the gym. On our last day of carol singing, Friday, December 18th, all students come together to sing carols in all 3 languages.
This year we would like to add a little Canadian content. Mummering is a Christmas-time house visiting tradition that has been practiced in Newfoundland since the early 18oo’s. Mummering involves a group of people, disguised in ridiculous attire, who go to their neighbour's homes to sing, dance and enjoy the season. Mummers traditionally cover their faces so that their neighbours have to guess who they are, but we will forego this tradition and ask that students not cover their faces.
Information on mummer costumes can be found online. Costume examples we have discussed in class are; a hockey jersey with a pink wig, wearing clothes inside out and backwards, a bath robe with rubber boots, boys dressed as women and girls dressed as men, etc.; the sillier and more outrageous, the better. Please remember to dress students in comfortable clothing appropriate to wear outside for recess.
This year we would like to add a little Canadian content. Mummering is a Christmas-time house visiting tradition that has been practiced in Newfoundland since the early 18oo’s. Mummering involves a group of people, disguised in ridiculous attire, who go to their neighbour's homes to sing, dance and enjoy the season. Mummers traditionally cover their faces so that their neighbours have to guess who they are, but we will forego this tradition and ask that students not cover their faces.
Information on mummer costumes can be found online. Costume examples we have discussed in class are; a hockey jersey with a pink wig, wearing clothes inside out and backwards, a bath robe with rubber boots, boys dressed as women and girls dressed as men, etc.; the sillier and more outrageous, the better. Please remember to dress students in comfortable clothing appropriate to wear outside for recess.
