...Break a Leg!!!

Remember the play we were preparing in third grade? Monday was the performance... and this week has been crazy-busy because we had visitors from Ireland, France and Poland at school until Wednesday (thus this belated post).

The show was a hit! We brought down the house and our visitors were duly impressed. The Irish woman commented that they had very good pronunciation. :) I was pleased. Of course, we worked and worked and worked on this... but it really paid off in the end.

The kids were SOOOOO excited because we performed in the municipal theatre--very professional feeling. Their nerves got the better of them in a few parts when they either spoke too quickly or too softly; but these were just minor things. No one forgot lines and our scene transitions went smoothly...if a little loudly. ;)

On Wednesday we performed for the rest of the school, and I got nothing but compliments from the other teachers: it was so well choreographed, the kids knew their lines so well, they did a great job acting, the different backdrops and the music were right on...etc. :) I was quite a happy camper. The truth is that Sarah and I had been working ourselves overtime these past few weeks making props and painting the backdrops...not to mention rehearsing sometimes three times a day! It's always nice to feel appreciated for your work.

Enough chat! Here is the full cast of Friends of the Forest. The blond on the left is Sarah and the woman on the right is the English teacher, Araceli.

This is the dead forest the children find when they go on their field trip. These are our dead trees and the owl who explain to the children how the forest was destroyed: people threw litter and weren't careful with matches. ;)

(Can you tell I grew up with posters of Woodsy the Owl and Smokey the Bear on my bedroom walls??)

I'm in the process of uploading the video of the play to YouTube... I'll post that as soon as it's finished. Angelines came to watch and she recorded the play with our little digital camera. It's not the best quality and it turns out that where she was sitting there was a spotlight RIGHT in the way so it's kind of hard to see the stage... She also cut off the narrators in every scene change! (Guess she shouldn't quit her day job!) Still, you can get the gist of how it all went and you can hear the kids pretty well.