Mr. J. and Mr. O. would like to invite our Quest Families to join them on Quest’s Spring Break Service Learning trip from March 20-24, 2016. It is a great time working with friends, learning new skills and helping others! Click on the link to get all the details.
Please join us!
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In fifth grade we have continued to rehearse “Lewis and Clark”. There are a lot of students who need help with memorizing their lines, cues, and blocking. Please help you child with this at home. We talked about characterization and showing emotion not only in your face when acting, but in your body and with gestures. We also rehearsed this week with our minimal props and looked at costumes options in the costume room. Please remember that the informance for “Lewis and Clark” is Feb 2 – Dragons at 1:30 and Phoenix at 2:15 in the drama room. Please make sure you RSVP to the evite!
In Sixth grade students worked on some ensemble mime exercises. I put a shape on the white board and they had to get into that shape with out talking. They did a great job. They needed to focus on communicating with gestures, body language and facial expressions. In class we discussed the rules of mime. I showed my students a few short videos of examples of mime.
We also did an exercise that focused on eye contact. Students were partnered up and were asked to mime different tasks while looking their partner in the eye the entire time. This took about 15 minutes! I was pretty impressed with the concentration that was involved!
In Seventh grade we had “Twelfth Night” cold reading auditions. Each student stood up in front of class mates and read from the script for a character of their choice. They also had to read sentences from their Shakespeare packet and walk across the stage in character Everyone did a great job. Please make sure you mark your calendars for the Seventh Grade Shakespeare Project of “Twelfth Night” on March 17th, 2016 !
In eight grade everyone performed their monologues. It was great to watch everyone have the courage to get up in front of their classmates and perform solo! I enjoyed seeing the different character choices and interpretations of monologues that they chose. Auditions for “The Little Mermaid” will be next Tuesday, January, 26th, 2016. They will be auditioning with their monologues as well as do a cold reading from “The Little Mermaid” and sing a song! Please help your children at home rehearse their monologues so that they feel confident at their auditions!
Thanks to all that came out for the basketball tournament this past Wednesday! We had lots of fun and raised $125.00 to go towards the musical. Thanks to Greg Linton and James Marchi for organizing, a big thanks to Mr. Ryder and Shilhanek for helping organize and referee and Mr. Voeller for sharing the gym!
Make sure you mark your calendars for the “The Little Mermaid” performances. April 29th at 7 pm. and April 30th at 2:00 pm.