Saturday, December 20, 2008

5 days til Christmas

Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas brings the muppets to my Christmas program list. Once again it's the animals that make this piece. The classic puppetry of Jim Henson's group gives such a connection for me and all the years watching Sesame Street and the Muppet Show.

This story also gives the ever pertinent moral that those around us are more important that any of the things we want. For kids this gives kids today a more direct connection to caring for one another then the O Henry story, The Gift of the Magi.

1 comment:

Mrs. Donohue Language Arts said...

This is a classic for those of us that remember it, but they never show it... unless I really missed something this year. That's nothing out of the ordinary either.