Monday 24th August
Today the first thing we did was registration and fun puzzles. After that we read the zebra poem and picked a line out of the poem and drew a picture of it. Then my group (Zazu) went off into a separate room and everyone made up their own poems about African animals. At break time Shona shared her French chocolate sticks with a few of us and they were really nice but tasted weird at the same time. We then went and finished our poems. After that we made our mood boards in our groups. We used lots of African pictures, materials, beads and information. Once we had finished our mood boards and tidied up the library, we went and played limbo. It was really good fun, some of us in our group fell over but I didn’t. It was a very enjoyable day!
By Elise
Tuesday 25th August.
Today we made masks to use in our production based around animals in the poems. We will be performing to our parents in the hall. My mask is meant to be a Buffalo, my favourite part about it is that we all got to make our masks but the worst part is the fact that we only had two hours today to make them. Today our group had to decide what poem we would be acting out and decide what music to use for the selected poem. Some members of our group had to make a diorama of the stage for our play. Francesca also has to write a story. Also I was selected to write a blog (this).
By Billy
Wednesday 26th August 2009
Wow best day of the week. I love the west end shows.
But more of that later. First of all maths puzzles to crack!. These Sudoku’s are hard but I think I have sussed them out now.
Next it’s off to the art room to finish our masks. Mines a buffalo. Looks a bit like a cow to me but it will have to do. You can tell a lot of the others are talented in art as their masks are brilliant.
Getting excited now only lunch to go and then we are off to London. When we arrived at the theatre it was busy as usual. Great seats up in the circle.
I thought the show was fantastic. My favourite bit was at the start when all the animals walked through the crowd onto the stage. The thing that struck me was how colourful it was. The actor’s animal costumes were so good they made me believe they were real.
I liked the way they used different instruments in different ways to create the movement of each animal. I think we should try and use some of these ideas in our performance.
Safely home. Had a great day. Looking forward to tomorrow.
By Rebecca
Thursday 27th August
First we had registration and then went to the gym room and choreographed a dance to music made from our hand – made African musical instruments. We did this for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Then we had lunch from 11:00 – 11:30 outside in the dull, cloudy weather with a little breeze. After lunch we went back into the gym to finish off our play and dance. When we hade completed that, some of us went to the lecture theatre to write a critique about the Lion King performance that we saw on Wednesday. Then we proceeded back to the gym to play some games as we had some time left.
We played a game that involved a lot of energy, and the last one to do something or the one who does something wrong would be eliminated. When I hade to pick up a survivor I had no energy left and my arms went to jelly! When there were just 4 people left (I was one of those people) we played a game called murderball, where the 4 survivors from the previous game would have to throw a ball at people from the waist and below. If we succeeded then the person who got hit would join the other team. It was a really fun day.
By Shona
Today the first thing we did was registration and fun puzzles. After that we read the zebra poem and picked a line out of the poem and drew a picture of it. Then my group (Zazu) went off into a separate room and everyone made up their own poems about African animals. At break time Shona shared her French chocolate sticks with a few of us and they were really nice but tasted weird at the same time. We then went and finished our poems. After that we made our mood boards in our groups. We used lots of African pictures, materials, beads and information. Once we had finished our mood boards and tidied up the library, we went and played limbo. It was really good fun, some of us in our group fell over but I didn’t. It was a very enjoyable day!
By Elise
Tuesday 25th August.
Today we made masks to use in our production based around animals in the poems. We will be performing to our parents in the hall. My mask is meant to be a Buffalo, my favourite part about it is that we all got to make our masks but the worst part is the fact that we only had two hours today to make them. Today our group had to decide what poem we would be acting out and decide what music to use for the selected poem. Some members of our group had to make a diorama of the stage for our play. Francesca also has to write a story. Also I was selected to write a blog (this).
By Billy
Wednesday 26th August 2009
Wow best day of the week. I love the west end shows.
But more of that later. First of all maths puzzles to crack!. These Sudoku’s are hard but I think I have sussed them out now.
Next it’s off to the art room to finish our masks. Mines a buffalo. Looks a bit like a cow to me but it will have to do. You can tell a lot of the others are talented in art as their masks are brilliant.
Getting excited now only lunch to go and then we are off to London. When we arrived at the theatre it was busy as usual. Great seats up in the circle.
I thought the show was fantastic. My favourite bit was at the start when all the animals walked through the crowd onto the stage. The thing that struck me was how colourful it was. The actor’s animal costumes were so good they made me believe they were real.
I liked the way they used different instruments in different ways to create the movement of each animal. I think we should try and use some of these ideas in our performance.
Safely home. Had a great day. Looking forward to tomorrow.
By Rebecca
Thursday 27th August
First we had registration and then went to the gym room and choreographed a dance to music made from our hand – made African musical instruments. We did this for 1 hour and 30 minutes. Then we had lunch from 11:00 – 11:30 outside in the dull, cloudy weather with a little breeze. After lunch we went back into the gym to finish off our play and dance. When we hade completed that, some of us went to the lecture theatre to write a critique about the Lion King performance that we saw on Wednesday. Then we proceeded back to the gym to play some games as we had some time left.
We played a game that involved a lot of energy, and the last one to do something or the one who does something wrong would be eliminated. When I hade to pick up a survivor I had no energy left and my arms went to jelly! When there were just 4 people left (I was one of those people) we played a game called murderball, where the 4 survivors from the previous game would have to throw a ball at people from the waist and below. If we succeeded then the person who got hit would join the other team. It was a really fun day.
By Shona
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