So, So Spooky

This week, we start with a wonderful, easy-to-do-at-home dance performed by our 4-year-olds, called Superman!

Save the date for the Holiday Concert:

Wednesday, December 17 at 6:30 p.m. 

Every student is imperative to our concert so we look forward to seeing everyone there. Meanwhile, students should be striving to practice their songs once per day if possible.

Holiday Concert Practice Videos

Holiday Concert Practice MP3s & Lyrics

This week was exciting for many reasons: Drama Club 3rd & 4th graders and all Middle School students received the audition packet for Annie, Jr. Each student was given a hard copy as they have to fill-out the back page (front & back) with parents and bring it to their audition. The packet is also available online, as are helpful links for practice:

Annie, Jr. MP3s & Audition Packet

Annie Audition Songs (YouTube Playlist)

The links will also remain on the right side of the blog in a column called, "Annie, Jr."

Middle School students receive audition packets.

Students are still busy preparing songs, instruments and dances for the holiday concert, but we DID manage to find some time for fun Halloween songs. These songs included Monster Mash, The Addams Family, Ghostbusters and the song-of-the-week (dance song), Thriller. Some of them were sing-alongs, dance videos or cartoons. We also studied some of classical music's spookiest pieces including, Danse Macabre by Camille Saint-Saens and The Sorcerer's Apprentice by Paul Dukas. They also enjoyed a scary musical story rendition of Dark, Dark, Night set to In the Hall of the Mountain King by Edvard Grieg.

In library, students celebrated Spooky Story Week in the dark. Using only a book-light, they read some fascinating spooky tales like 5 Little Pumpkins and There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bat.

The older students listened to even spookier stories, some of them classics, including The Hairy Toe and The Ghost with One Black-Eye. We even had a visit from our middle schoolers this week, so they could get in on the fun.

In drama club, students learned about Annie, Jr. auditions and finished by playing one of their favorite drama games, "Scratch Murder." Students close their eyes while a leader picks a murderer. The game begins and the students go around shaking hands, as if they are meeting people at a party. If the murderer secretly scratches your hand during a handshake, you must wait 3 seconds and then die. At any point, someone can yell "freeze!" and then state, "I accuse ______," pointing to the murderer. If they are wrong, they have to die, too. We added a fun drama element to this game by pretending to be in different party situations, like a Cowboy Hoedown and a delegation of British Aristocrats.

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