Tom's Play

Tom's fourth grade class performed three plays yesterday that they had been working on since almost the start of school. They worked really hard and they did a great job. This first six weeks of school, they focused on fairy tales from around the world. Their plays depicted different fairy tales from different cultures and the kids learned that, although each culture may have Cinderella, it may not have the same happy ending or it may be told differently than they are use to. It is amazing how multi-cultural this school is. I love that my boys are seeing that it doesn't matter where you may have grown up or what language your family speaks at home. What matters is who you are inside. Kids don't seem to stereo-type like adults do. I really do love this part about living here. They are being exposed to a whole new form of teaching and a different ciricullum than we were use to in a traditional public school. Here I go getting off subject......


In the first play, Turkey Girl, Tom was the Native American priest of sorts. It is the basic story of Cinderella but from the Native American telling. He was awesome!


The next play was completely in spanish. Tom helped with props. Let's just say my boys are not the strongest spanish speakers in their classes. He worked really hard building the fruit stand used in the spanish version of Red Riding Hood. I guess it was pretty funny because half the audience - who are native spanish speakers I think - were laughing pretty hard at the dialouge.


The third play was called "Spiderella" and was an insect version of Cinderella. Tom was one of the three narators in this play and he was great. He isn't nervous speaking into the microphone and spoke clearly and slow enough we could understand him. I loved watching him get out in front and perform. He doesn't do that very often. He is really coming into his own since we've moved down here and I can literally watch him grow into a young man each day. Man I love that kid!