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Tomorrow (Thursday) is the day of the theatre presentation, grades 1 through 10. I am so excited, and the students are too.
For class one, we are doing part of a 'story drama' curriculum from the book Pancakes, Pancakes!!! Class 2 is also 'story drama' from Are You My Mother?
Class 3 and I will do parts of our creative drama adventure of finding the Librarian's Magic library books...we will visit the Dream Garden (they grow like trees, where the books were buried...then the pages were empty), the Musician (who made them be in his great band to get the magic pages back, that he had to have for his songs...but he gave them to his boss - the pirate), the Pirate (never fails to have some fun with!), and finally in Space - on the Moon to be precise.
Class 4 will do a movement/sound exercise that they are awesome and hilarious at, and a 7 sentence story.
Class 5 has 2 seven sentence stories...15 in each group (they are a handful!!!).
Class 6 is doing a choral poem, titled Her Head.
Class 7 is acting out a story that I got from this great book of African folktales called The Girl Who Married a Lion. They are amazing! So hilarious, and not afraid to be silly, but are still very focused.
Class 8 wrote me their favorite stories...they are acting out 2 of the stories, and 2silly jokes.
Class 9 will do basic stage combat (I know, it's pretty cool:) ) and 4 scenes from the play I wrote for them.
Class 10 shines when they have fun...for a lot of them saying lines - especially the too cool kids - ended up not being that fun for them...which I fine. So, we are doing Yah!, a great game that is guaranteed to make them smile, and one scene in the play I wrote that is fun for them to do.

I hope that a lot of parents come. We sent them home with some invitations at the end of the day today, so hopefully there will be a decent sized audience.
It has been such an amazing experience and great pleasure to work here and with these students. I wish you all could meet them.
Don't get me wrong, white kids are cute too...but there is something about the children here, and in Mexico, and I am sure I will say this about every country I visit that is not dominantly white...but these kids are too cute, just beautiful.

Except for when they are greedy one's and steel. Today, we discovered that things from the library were stolen. Some notebooks, pencils, prizes for the are competition (there is also an art exhibition tomorrow), books, balls, dinosaurs, cars...a lot of stuff. Such a huge bummer. It is so horrible to think that some of the kids I teach here could be kids who stole something. It sort of baffles me. I wrote about before, how people seem to be fairly greedy here. Even the children. I guess that is all over the world. It's just disappointing, and baffling, because I having drama, art, and a library is new to them...but they take advantage of it and don't see it as a privilege. Not all of the students...there are a lot of students that I can tell genuinely appreciate it all, even having the chance to come to school at all. But, then there are others who I can tell don't have that same respect - to things, education, and with people.

All in all, all is well though. And I can't wait for tomorrow!!!!!!