Thursday, May 20, 2010

Classroom news

Dear Families,

 

Well, things have begun to move at warp speed as the year end races to the end.   We are on for the class play for the evening of June 3rd at 6:00.  I believe only one family can’t make it.   We are combining this play with Mrs. Orr’s class poetry, and then we will gather in our classrooms to share their collage stories they are working so very hard on with Kathi in writing.   The evening is planned to be no longer than an hour.  We will not be having a dinner or food sharing at this event.  That would make the evening longer for some kiddoes who are already pretty tuckered out by the end of the school day.

 

There are a few things I will need parents to help out with to pull this play off.   If your child has a play “hard hat” or construction tool belt that we could borrow, that would be great.   Ask your child what his/her part is.  Several scripts went home to help with that also.  If your child is a village person or village woman (including the two jailers), which is most everyone, please have him or her wear large pieces of bright colorful fabric wrapped around with a rope.  Girls can also have a piece of scrap fabric tied around their head as a headband.   Please don’t buy anything for this.  Just scrap fabric or colorful old sheet could be used.  We’re trying to dress as village men and women from a village in Kenya.  I’ve got some fabric at school, but not enough for everyone.  We also talked about how the boys could have a large piece of fabric folded in half and put over their head (just hole cut in it) and then tied around waste to create the sleeves.  Boys can also wear bright colorful shorts and bold “Hawaiian-type” shirts if fabric isn’t available.  The fabrics don’t have to match, and actually would be great if they didn’t—just big, bright, vibrant colors and patterns/designs.

 

If your child is construction worker, then he/she just needs pants, t-shirt, and hopefully we’ll have construction hats and work belts that come to school for us to use.

 

I’m also looking for one more old umbrella that we could use to tape paper leaves to for the play.  We will return it after the play.

 

I think that’s it for now.

Brenda

 

 

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