Mainly pics tonight as we ease back into our usual homeschooling and family life blog. Those of you who have stuck around—I think you for your patience. Now, on with the show! Instead of being dinosaurs for the umpteenth time, this year the boys were struck by an 11th hour inspiration: Willy Wonka and Charlie, [...]
This afternoon the boys and I headed to Evergreen Theatre to watch a dress rehearsal of their show “Lost”, about endangered species. It is shortly going on tour to countless Alberta schools, so they wanted to do a run-though with an audience and some child volunteers for some roles, as they do in all their [...]
Today the boys had their final performance from their homeschool drama class that they had been doing at Evergreen Theatre. The play was about Whooping Cranes, the challenges they face, and what we can do to help them survive. I’ll have a video link to the performance up later, but for now here are pictures [...]
This afternoon the boys and I headed to the library for a one-off Reader’s Theatre class. It turned out to not at all be what I was expecting—I thought the kids would be the active participants doing reader’s theatre (i.e., reading short scripts, of varying difficulty), as I have seen kids do in schools. Instead, [...]
This fall, the boys took a new homeschool offering: drama class at Evergreen Theatre. Evergreen does educational productions for schools on themes of science, nature and the environment; you can read about when we went to see their production Flushed, all about the wastewater treatment process, here. The theme of the boys’ drama class was [...]
This past weekend was the Victoria Day, or “May 2-4”, weekend, a little bit of wordplay as the holiday often lands around May 24th, and a “two-four” is slang for a case of 24 beers, which are often enjoyed during this “kickoff to summer” long weekend in Canada. I had a great time gardening and [...]
Gareth’s class gave their performance during the last half of class as well. This class was called “Performing Arts Combo” and included both dance/movement and drama, and was for 5 and 6 year olds. As Gareth just turned 5 in January right before the class started, he was the smallest one. But my goodness was [...]
Both Daegan and Gareth had their final drama classes of the winter session today, and gave short performances to friends and family during the last half of their class. Here’s the highlights of Daegan’s performance (hover mouse over pics for details): The intro line, in which each child stepped forward and said their name and [...]
We had a lovely weekend. Friday night I took the boys swimming at VRRI, where the pool is wonderfully warm. They do lots of rehab stuff there, so I am not kidding when I say the pool is kept at the temperature of a warm bath. Ahhhh! The boys had lots of fun splashing, [...]