Save the Date!
Submitted by Ms Ellis on Fri, 2008-09-26 13:04.
Parents of fourth and fifth grade pullout students set the date: Friday, October 31st from 9:30-10:30 the students will be performing Halloween-themed poetry for their fellow students, and you are invited to attend. The event will take place in the Rutledge Hall library. Invites will go home as the date approaches, but it is always helpful to know what is coming ahead of time. (Third grade parents, your students are also performing for their peers, but theirs is a student-only audience this year.) If you would like, you can help your student by playing the role of attentive audience member over the next few weeks so that s/he can practice performing in front of actual people. Feel free to offer suggestions for possible hand gestures and different voices to accompany the poetic presentations. Provide feedback about voice projection and eye contact with the audience. Public speaking and performance are important skills, and this is a fun way to get in some practice. An added bonus: you might just find yourself learning a poem or two along the way!
In other news, we just mailed out our Create-a-Characters for Storyworks Magazine’s annual contest. The students learned the creativity-sparking strategy of brainstorming to help them create original characters in the hopes that their character might be selected as the inspiration for a short story written by this year’s author, Roland Smith, and published in the spring in the magazine. Who knows? Perhaps we will see one of ours as a grand winner!
Parents of fourth and fifth grade pullout students set the date: Friday, October 31st from 9:30-10:30 the students will be performing Halloween-themed poetry for their fellow students, and you are invited to attend. The event will take place in the Rutledge Hall library. Invites will go home as the date approaches, but it is always helpful to know what is coming ahead of time. (Third grade parents, your students are also performing for their peers, but theirs is a student-only audience this year.) If you would like, you can help your student by playing the role of attentive audience member over the next few weeks so that s/he can practice performing in front of actual people. Feel free to offer suggestions for possible hand gestures and different voices to accompany the poetic presentations. Provide feedback about voice projection and eye contact with the audience. Public speaking and performance are important skills, and this is a fun way to get in some practice. An added bonus: you might just find yourself learning a poem or two along the way!In other news, we just mailed out our Create-a-Characters for Storyworks Magazine’s annual contest. The students learned the creativity-sparking strategy of brainstorming to help them create original characters in the hopes that their character might be selected as the inspiration for a short story written by this year’s author, Roland Smith, and published in the spring in the magazine. Who knows? Perhaps we will see one of ours as a grand winner!
