JK
The children will be learning two songs and artistic movement to another for the Christmas concert. They are attempting to enter and exist the stage and learning how to follow cues (silent directions) in order to sing in unison and to incorporate their actions at the proper moments.
PARENTS - please check this blog for postings of required items (props) and costumes. Your assistance will be imperative and enormously appreciated.
SK
On this day the children practised their song for the Christmas concert. They attempted to make their stage formations and add some actions while singing.
PARENTS - please check this blog for postings of required items (props) and costumes. Your assistance will be imperative and enormously appreciated.
Grades 1 and 2
The grade ones and twos are ambitiously learning their Christmas poem and their carol. They truly enjoy the idea of surprising parents with a good production, follow dirctions, take their cues, offer good ideas, and are a joy to work with. We are also learning a little bit of an ancient language..............
PARENTS - please check this blog for postings of required items (props) and costumes. Your assistance will be imperative and enormously appreciated.
Grades 3 and 4
We have been studying the play Romeo & Juliet by W. Shakespeare and are learning our roles in order to put on a 10 minute play for Mrs. Haag and Mr. Sawatsky. The boys and girls are to study ALL handouts, as the information and discussions we have had will be part of a test.
It is important to remember that every part in a play or production is VERY important. If we only had the leads, and that would be one or two people, the plays would be very boring indeed.
We must also remember to listen to our cast members so that we take our cues from their last word or action and this way know exactly when it is our turn to speak without the need for prompting.
Grades 5, 6, and 7
We once again reviewed the stage directions so that we know where to go when the director says to move UP STAGE RIGHT!!! We have reviewed several vocabulary words related to theatre and these will be posted somewhere on this blog eventually.
We have compared and contrasted the characters and will continue to do so until everyone is able to understand the roles the characters play in both Shakespeare's version as well as Mr. Bloedel's.
Finally we have defined the words MONOTONE and CAPITULATE!
TSOR&J - Cast Members
All the roles have now been allocated! Cast members have attempted a read through.
It is extremely important to start reading your lines properly - which means to start adding emotions. Remember we read in phrases and take PAUSES and follow punctuation marks to know when to stop, stop longer, and continue. We are trying to read for fluency and meaning and emotion. We are trying very hard to read ahead and prepare for classes so that when it's our turn to speak during class, we will not sound choppy. And we have agreed that we will all bring a pencil and our scripts to EACH AND EVERY CLASS!!!
Parents - your assistance in providing props for the play will be crucial and appreciated beyond belief. Please, please, please, either check the blog in order to be updated as to costumes, properties required, and attendance at rehearsals. For now, we are wondering if any of you have swimming/water noodles that you could lend us, that would be great. We need 6-8 any colours; please label them. They will be safely stored away after every rehearsal and will be returned after the production. Thank you.
Kindest Regards,
Mrs. M. Deras
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