Next Stage

The writing component of the play productions are completed.  The children made drafts of the scripts, I typed what they wrote, they revised their work and corrected my typos, and I made final copies of the plays.  

Now the children are rehearsing and designing costumes.  We will perform the plays, for various classrooms during school,  sometime in December (after the school production of the Odyssey is over).  

The class is having a great time trying on costumes, and experimenting with other voices, as they continue to work on the plays (The 3 pigs, The 3 Bears, and The 3 Billy Goats Gruff) 

Design for Billy Goat Gruff costume

Design for pig costume

Beginning of pig costume

In thinking about our own identities, it is interesting to think about and try on other identities.  Mary Ann Hoberman considered this idea in her poem, Changing, that we learned a couple weeks ago.  

Changing

I know what I feel like;

I'd like to be you

And feel what you feel like

And do what you do.

I'd like to change places

For maybe a week

And look like your look-alike

And speak as you speak

And think what you're thinking

And go where you go

And feel what you're feeling

And know what you know.

I wish we could do it;

What fun it would be

If I could try you out

And you could try me.

-Mary Ann Hoberman