There Were Three Billy Goats Gruff...

Tuesday, 19 May 2008

After months of having the same tunes in my head (and it was the same thing years ago when we did this play with my 2nd graders in Seattle), the 40+ students finally put on their performance of "The Three Billy Goats Gruff" for a cafeteria full of parents and students. Yesterday's dress rehearsal (only the second one with ALL K-2 students) was horrible, as I spent the morning yelling at all of them. Today, I figured, well, it'll at least be cute. Hope we can get sympathy applause. But, it was fine. The kids were cute, even if some of them forgot their lines and the great big billy goat was stage fright and just stood there on stage with a nervous smile. People enjoyed it. Last week, I ran all over the creation (Let me tell you, there are strange people that own year-round costume stores) looking for wigs for the troll, making props, going to Home Depot to buy fencing for the stage, cutting and painting cardboard, going to the craft store to buy fake fur for the billy goats chin hair, etc. The hard work paid off. The video our older kids did for the newspaper reporting project didn't turn out, and some classes still wanted us to do a second performance for the rest of the school. But, it was too exhausting. The kids are checking out, and so am I. Hopefully we can borrow a video from one of the parents.