Mrs. Dagg has been hard at work preparing students for our newly reborn all-school Christmas program. This program will remind us of the miraculous birth of Jesus and different traditions from around the world celebrating that life-changing event. Every single elementary class will sing at least one song, and many of the older elementary students have solos or narrator parts.
Each year, when I hear the voices of those little people joyfully singing Christmas carols, it warms my heart and brings tears to my eyes. The secondary students will be singing one song all together with their teachers and there will be a special song by our choir elective students, but I predict the 7th grade class choir will be the surprise show stealer, as I’ve had the privilege of listening to them practice a few times.
This year, our program will take place at Sage Hills Church because here on our TRA campus the largest gathering room, (now transformed into a real gym!) hasn’t been able to contain our entire student body plus parents and grandparents for a few years now.
It takes a great deal of incredibly hard work to get something started from the ground up, and that’s exactly what Ruth Dagg has been doing. They have been studying and practicing rhythm, volume, pitch, tone, and key. Mrs. Villafuerte, who has a front row seat to every music class that parades by her desk and practices one thin door away, can attest to the growth that our students have experienced at the hands of Mrs. Dagg so far this year. The River Academy elementary students finally have a music class again, and Mrs. Dagg is preparing them to put on a program and we’re all just beaming with pride.
The TRA Christmas program is a beautiful way to prepare our hearts for the joy of the Christmas season. We look forward to seeing you there!
-Tonya Griffith, Secondary Principal
“Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth!
Serve the Lord with gladness;
come before His presence with singing.
Know that the Lord, He is God;
it is He who has made us, and not we ourselves;
we are His people, and the sheep of His pasture.”
Some TRA students from our 2018 Christmas program.
