Final Days

Only a few more days of the Banos Project. The year has been full and exciting both for the students and myself, however, I am ready to head home... I miss my coffee pot!

Next week the class will repeat their puppet play for the entire school population and parents. The teachers who observed what the 'English teacher' really does in that classroom were all smiles. Since there is a language barrier, the projects turned more into a show and tell rather than sharing of curriculum.

For example, once they saw the mural, heard the story from a BOOK, btw, reading is not a component down here :(, observed the little ones connecting with the story / play through puppets, heard the students speak in English AND Spanish... they were starting to 'get it'.

With the invitation to share again, the students are now more aware of their actions, words/speaking, moments of needed silence. We are not performing in the classroom, so we will miss the added visual stimulation of the mural, but in the salon where there is a stage. However, the space is like a bowling alley with marble floor and walls - horrible acoustics -, so they will be introduced to a thrust stage and be 'in' the audience on ground level for projection purposes and the audience being able actually see/touch the puppets. I will have 2 students doing photo documentation to round out participation.

Photos of that rehearsal coming up next... stay tuned!