H.o.p.’s review of "The Tortoise and the Hare"

H.o.p. has this to say about the Center for Puppetry Art’s production of “The Tortoise and the Hare”.

It’s about this ship and it wrecked on an island and a bunch of animals came out of the ship, like a fox and a mouse and a tortoise and a rabbit and a crow with cheese in its mouth and a sneezing hen that goes kerchoo. There were two puppeteers. At the end suddenly the tortoise and the hare come on and the tortoise wins the race. The story of the Fox and Crow was told, and second was the Fox and the Grapes, and there was the Country Mouse and the City Mouse that was really fun. My favorite part was when the tortoise won, it was really funny. I thought it was great!!!

And in case you’re wondering what Georgia Standards it met for Grade 2, here you go:

SOCIAL STUDIES, Core Social Studies Skills
14 – Information processing.
Standard: Acquires information through reading, observing, leatning.
22 – Information processing.
Standard: Distinguishes between fiction and non-fiction.
28 – Civic participation.
Standard: Follows established rules.
31 – Civic Participation.
Standard: Shows respect toward others.

LANGUAGE ARTS, Oral Commmunication
2 – Listening/Speaking
Standard: Listens to a variety of literary forms…

LANGUAGE ARTS, Written communication
46 – Literature
Standard: Experiences traditional and contemporary literature through a variety of media
49 – Literature
Standard: Identifies literary forms.
50 – Literaature
Standard: Discriminates between realism and fantasy.
51 – Literature
Standard: Recognizes cultural diversity represented in literature.

CHARACTER EDUCATION, Respect for others
11 – Respect for others
11.3 Courtesy and cooperation…

FINE ARTS, Theater arts
14 – Artistic skills and knowledge…
Standard: Demonstrates an understanding that different types of literature can be enacted.
15 – Connections
Standard: Recognizes art forms of drama etc.
17 – Connections
Standard: Explores content from language arts, science etc. through dramatic activities.
20 – Critical analysis and aesthetic understanding
Standard: Recalls and states details from dramatic presentations
21 – Critical Analysis and aethetic understanding
Explains personal perferences about dramatic presentation
25 – Critical analysis and aesthetic understanding
Standard: Demonstrates awareness of and uses school, community and pro resources for theater experiences
26 – Critical analysis and aesthetic understanding
Standard: Describes the role and responsibility of the audience.

Whatever.

H.o.p. said there were three buses of school kids there. “They were really loud!” But were good during the performance.

A little girl took herself out of her school line and came over and stood in front of H.o.p. and smiled and stared and waved. He tends to have that effect on little girls. It was too loud for them to talk so they just smiled and wiggled their fingers at each other.

Pied piper H.o.p. We are continually warned that he’s quite a charmer and is going to be something when he becomes a teenager.