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Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Music. Show all posts

Monday, June 10, 2013

Two Days Mushed Together

Friday:
(Regretfully, we don't have any photos from the actual performance but we do have a few from the last rehearsals!)
Rehearsing...
Rehearsing, rehearsing!
 Today:

Helping to clean our classroom!
Scrub, Scrub, Scrub...
WATER PLAAAAY!
Playing with the hose
Splash!

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Practice Makes (the EC version of) Perfect

This morning, we headed down the steep steps to the lower level, waited in the halls (with the aroma of cookies causing somewhat of a distraction) and finally headed into the auditorium for our first onstage rehearsal! All of Early Childhood was gathered neatly into rows, lights shining brightly to illuminate their beautiful faces, and they (for the most part) sang their little hearts out. We will be rehearsing in this setting two more times before the show, so look out! We'll be ready and we hope you will be, too!
We also gathered together today for our first run-through of our play! For the first time, we stood in our spots and listened for the cues from the robot narrator in order to make the play come to life!

Other Owlings:

Wednesday, May 29, 2013

A Rehearsal Routine

This morning we began our rehearsals for our musical performance for the Arts Day. We will be singing (at least) two songs on stage with the rest of our Early Childhood friends. Almost every day from now until June 7th we'll be having these rehearsals.
This morning in art, Sam had the Owls create cloud renderings today. On three different shades of paper, we used white paint, guessing which color would allow the white to pop most. We used a variety of tools, cotton, sponges, wool, tin foil and more, to create the wispy nature of clouds.
One of the finished products


Other Owlings:
Painting cardboard for the set of the play!
Making flubber for some sensory and fine motor fun