Drama
No matter how well you think you know your kids, they love to surprise you.
Katie was very verbal from a young age. She talked to us all the time, and we were sure her teachers would be impressed by her abilities. Imagine our surprise, when a few months after Katie started in the 2-year-old class, her teachers told us she never spoke to them. Because she wouldn't talk, they couldn't determine whether she could count to 5. We soon started to notice that, although she was very talkative with family and other kids, she did not speak to any other adults. It was a shyness-thing.
Just as we had started to figure this out, we went to dinner at a restaurant with live entertainment. We were sitting very close to the singer, and at one point he turned to Katie and asked her if she would come and sit next to him to sing a song. As we all started to shake our heads, no, Katie got out of her chair, and climbed up on a stool next to this guy. He asked her a few questions about her age, and who her boyfriend was, which she answered confidently into the microphone ("2" and "Will"). He then asked her if she would sing her ABC's. She took the microphone and belted them out, no problem. So, that night we learned that Katie was not shy when she had an audience and a microphone!
Katie is still very shy, but she does speak to her teachers, and to most adults she knows well. She also loves participating in a kids' drama program, directed by our friend Suzanne Hess. Last Friday they performed "Attack of the Toysrians", an original production by Jeff Hess. It told the tale of an experiment by aliens, to see how earthling children would react when all of the adults disappeared.
Katie played one of a Huddled Mass of Children (HMOC). When the parents disappeared, they began playing with superglue, and got all stuck together. She had 2 lines, which she said loud and clear. Then she and the rest of the HMOC shuffled around the stage, managing to stay on their feet, despite some slippery conditions caused by other children, who were going wild with silly string. All in all, it was a lot of fun, and we were very proud of our little actress.
Here is Katie, stuck to her friends.
Kyra also participates in drama, and had a leading role as the alien, Corporal Toysr. She did a great job and memorized a lot of lines beautifully.
Katie was very verbal from a young age. She talked to us all the time, and we were sure her teachers would be impressed by her abilities. Imagine our surprise, when a few months after Katie started in the 2-year-old class, her teachers told us she never spoke to them. Because she wouldn't talk, they couldn't determine whether she could count to 5. We soon started to notice that, although she was very talkative with family and other kids, she did not speak to any other adults. It was a shyness-thing.
Just as we had started to figure this out, we went to dinner at a restaurant with live entertainment. We were sitting very close to the singer, and at one point he turned to Katie and asked her if she would come and sit next to him to sing a song. As we all started to shake our heads, no, Katie got out of her chair, and climbed up on a stool next to this guy. He asked her a few questions about her age, and who her boyfriend was, which she answered confidently into the microphone ("2" and "Will"). He then asked her if she would sing her ABC's. She took the microphone and belted them out, no problem. So, that night we learned that Katie was not shy when she had an audience and a microphone!
Katie is still very shy, but she does speak to her teachers, and to most adults she knows well. She also loves participating in a kids' drama program, directed by our friend Suzanne Hess. Last Friday they performed "Attack of the Toysrians", an original production by Jeff Hess. It told the tale of an experiment by aliens, to see how earthling children would react when all of the adults disappeared.
Katie played one of a Huddled Mass of Children (HMOC). When the parents disappeared, they began playing with superglue, and got all stuck together. She had 2 lines, which she said loud and clear. Then she and the rest of the HMOC shuffled around the stage, managing to stay on their feet, despite some slippery conditions caused by other children, who were going wild with silly string. All in all, it was a lot of fun, and we were very proud of our little actress.
Here is Katie, stuck to her friends.
Kyra also participates in drama, and had a leading role as the alien, Corporal Toysr. She did a great job and memorized a lot of lines beautifully.
posted by Lisa at 12:24 PM
1 Comments:
Ok...maybe if her teachers would give her a microphone she would count and recite the alphabet for them.
Zoe's progress is truly exciting.
Shelley
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