These stories celebrate our very existence, from the whimsy of childhood to the wisdom of old age. Kindergarten is a sure hit for almost any performing group. Read an Excerpt View Score Excerpt. Run Time min. Customer Reviews "Great show. Worked well virtually. Fun music and touching and heartwarming stories. Lots of opportunities for funny characters and practice with emotion and depth of character. It allowed for social distancing, changes could be made in casting, and alternate scenes were allowed.
The students really enjoyed performing it. The vignette format made rehearsals manageable for the teachers, and the message was accessible and encouraging. It was a hit! This is a rebuilding year for us because we lost a number of talented seniors last June. The vignettes require a variety of characters and difficulty levels, so every student had at least several speaking parts as narrators or actors within the stories.
I selected the musical version and this gave our top singers opportunity to enhance the presentation with vocals. But near the end of rehearsals, they saw how good the material was. Our audiences responded well. The students were attentive and many adults commented on how good the acting was and that it was a show requiring the audience to think. One actor was surprised to see some in the audience in tears during some dramatic monologs.
Not only did the students perform it, they grew by working on it as well. Gonzalez, Kellogsville H. Beautifully rich script full of truth and understanding.
It was fun to produce, but better than that, taught life lessons that will stay with our cast and audience forever. People are still talking about it one month later! It is a timeless reflection of the lifelong lessons in being truly human.
We love the universal appeal. Casting is flexible, which is another joy of the script. Every single kid wants your attention. I knew the same was true about my third graders, but 5-year-olds seem to have much less of a filter than older kids. They want you to know everything they know, everything they do, what they ate for breakfast, what bad words they heard their dad say…. And I love my little nuggets, but I had to learn how to handle it.
We have all settled at the carpet looking at the Smartboard, zoned in to learning our numbers. All the kids raise their hands Ha kidding, no one raises their hands and have decided to forego math and just swap stories about dogs. Usually I acknowledge one story, say how cool it is, and then make a blanket statement that we need to focus on math, and to save our stories for later.
Not happening. And how do we write a number 5 friends? Yes, Frank? I love my littles, even when they are the most trying. So—I have made myself picture it like this:. My nephews without a doubt are my favorite people on the planet, and 3 of them will be starting kindergarten in the fall. I said no stories! Now tip toe up to the board and try to write the number 5!!
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See a Problem? Details if other :. Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death. Share everything. Play fair. Don't hit people. Put things back where you found them.
Don't take things that aren't yours. Wash your hands before you eat. Warm cookies and cold milk are good for you. Live a balanced life - learn some and drink some and draw some and paint some and sing and dance and play and work everyday some.
Take a nap every afternoon. When you go out into the world, watch out for traffic, hold hands, and stick together. Be aware of wonder. Remember the little seed in the Styrofoam cup: The roots go down and the plant goes up and nobody really knows how or why, but we are all like that. Goldfish and hamster and white mice and even the little seed in the Styrofoam cup - they all die. So do we. Wanting to hide. Needing to be sought.
Confused about being found. I want to laugh a lot and cry a lot. I know what I really want for Christmas: I want my childhood back. People who think good thoughts give good gifts.
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