Stage Fright on a Summer Night

This week's warm up consisted of designing costumes for Jack and Annie to wear in their next play, as well as completing a word search.

I summarized the twenty fifth book, Stage Fright on a Summer Night, and asked the children a variety of questions about the book.

When we arrived at the part in the book where the tree house spun, each child received a Dizzy Pill (which is actually a Tootsie Roll) to help make them less dizzy. After eating their Dizzy Pills, the children were instructed to spin around three times, as if they were in the spinning tree house.

When we got to the part in the book where Jack wrote in his notebook, I showed the notebook I made that has all of Jack's notes in it.

Our first craft was making a bear out of a circle template I provided. The children colored, cut out, and glued the various sized circles together to form a bear, just like the one Annie saved in this week's book.

When we got to the part in the book where a man was collecting pennies for admission to the play, each child received their own penny box. Prior to the meeting, I glued four pennies to the top of each box. This was for them to keep at home and save their money in.

Next, the children decorated crowns, so they could be royalty like Queen Elizabeth. I passed out a crown template, which the children colored and cut out. Some of the kids decorated their crowns with stickers as well!

Many of the actors in Shakespeare's play wore masks, so we decided to make our own. I passed out a mask for each child to color and cut out. Then, I helped them tape the mask to a stick.