Shadow Screen Charades

In the big studio, a variety of friends played Charades behind the shadow screen.  When Ellee and Willa performed, they moved their bodies without speaking and waited for the audience to guess their act.  Willa jumped up and down, and Ellee crouched low and raised one leg up in the air.  The audience, Prater and Lila, gave a lot of good guesses; they guessed Ellee was pretending to be a turtle.   The actors finally revealed what they were acting out: A paintbrush with soap.

Ellee: Sometimes paintbrushes can paint soap.
Willa: I was a soap.
Ellee: I was the paintbrush 'cause I was lifting my leg to paint as a long tip.

Later, the group used the shadow screen to draw and project maps for the "traveling musicians".  Willa showed us around her map.

Willa: This is a big pool. This is animals, animals, and animals. And these show you where to go anywhere! Everywhere!
Joci: Are they roads to get to your house?
​Willa: Yes, and the zoo and everything.  And the pool.

​Can you guess the silhouette?  It's Grace acting out Sleeping Beauty.

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Our progress on the disco ball continued in the mini-studio today.  Grace held the hot glue gun her friends placed sparkly objects onto the ball.  We used the wooden tools as a "sixth finger" to prevent burning our fingers.  At meeting, when we discussed the disco ball, we decided it should hang on a hook "above where we dance".  Prater had the idea to host a disco party and invite the Brown Room and the Rainey Room... Stay tuned!

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Two of the Tucker Room children brought special objects from home.  Maya brought a chapter book called "The Enchanted Wood".  She showed us her favorite pictures in the book and told us it was about an "angry pixie."  Mac brought an instrument: a guitar!

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Outside at the sandbox, a group of children dug a hole and  filled it with water.  When a large rock emerged in the center of the hole, the rock became part of their story.

Mac: It's hot cocoa island.
Alex:  I have some more hot cocoa.  (brings pitcher of water) It's all made by one tiny island.  The island of hot cocoa.
Ellee: And you can get stuck in the hot cocoa.
Cassius:  It's gonna be pretty dangerous.  (he climbs on the rock and balances there)
Alex: It has to freeze overnight.  It'll be hard as a chain.