Our Grade Four Class Blog The Case of the Curious Classroom 

Great job Grade Four! Your shadow plays turned out great and I know how hard each group worked to ensure the plays were performance ready! The audience enjoyed your shadow plays! One grade six student mentioned they were, “adorable.” 🙂

The Gingerbread Man Group:

It was a great idea to build a gingerbread man because the couple was lonely. I liked how you described what the gingerbread man looked like. Each of you spoke clearly and loudly, which helps ensure that the audience can hear you. I enjoyed the ending of the gingerbread taking a shower because he was gooey. Great sound effects while the gingerbread man was taking a shower. Fantastic expressive voice by the gingerbread man! The gingerbread man definitely made me laugh! Nice job with your character designs, as well! 🙂

Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf Group:

Nice job! I could tell you worked hard to speak loudly and with expression, particularly the wolf. I liked how you changed your voice to match with the character. This engages your audience. It definitely made me laugh! Great job with your shadow play character designs as you could tell what they were. Keep working on ensuring you articulate your words clearly, as this will help bring your performance to even greater heights. You did a great job of telling the story of what happened and it included detail and description. A great lesson to everyone, never talk to strangers, particularly wolves! 🙂

Goldilocks and the Three Bears Group

Great work! Your group spoke loudly and clearly. Fantastic job changing the voices to match with the characters. This engages your audience and adds humour to your play. It definitely made me laugh! Nice job with your characters as you could tell who the bears were and the different scenes. Great job not getting flustered when you made a mistake or had to make a scene change. You kept going, a sign of true performers! Great scream at the end of the play when Goldilocks ran away! 🙂

Three Billy Goats Gruff Group

Nice work! You did a great job with your character designs, as you could tell the different sizes of the goats, who the troll was, and the bridge in the background. I could tell you were trying to speak clearly and with expression. Nice job adding the sound effects of the goat clomping over the bridge. This engages your audience and adds humour. I definitely thought it was funny! Keep working on ensuring you articulate your words when you speak, as this will help take your performance to even greater heights! I also noticed the fantastic teamwork by your group when you were creating your play! 🙂

The Three Little Reindeers and the Big Bad Santa Group

Fantastic job! I liked how you created your own play based on the Three Little Pigs and the Big Bad Wolf but used different characters and without even knowing it you created a fractured fairy tale. Your apartment, Santa, and the reindeers were designed well. Nice job speaking clearly and adding expression to your voices. This engages the audience. I liked how you used, “swoosh,” to tell the audience it was a scene change. Great ending to your play by throwing the fairy dust in the air! I also noticed the fantastic teamwork by group when you were creating the play! 🙂