Shelby's Class Play

We got a letter from Shelby's teacher that they would be doing class plays. Shelby's school does tracks. Half the kids come at 8:00 am, and the other half come at 9:15. They use that hour to teach reading to the first half of the class, and then the other half get their reading after the first kids leave. It helps them to be able to work with the kids better on their reading. Anyway, during their reading time, they had read books in groups and then made some props to put on a play about the books they read.

Since the plays were to be done from 8:15 to 9:15 and Taylor's school starts at 9:15, we had Taylor come with us and left Payden and Declan, who we thought would be too wiggly and noisy, home with Cynthia.


Shelby's play was the last one to be done. Her book was about an owl who all the animals thought was SOOOOOO wise because he knew everything. The animals would come ask the owl questions. The owl would ask them what they think they should do, they would answer, and the owl would tell them to go and do. Hahaha . . . I guess you'd call the owl wise because he made the animals do all the thinking.


Shelby got to play the owl. She was so excited to wear the little owl beak that they had made, and then we dressed her in brown for the day. Her friend Haley got to be the narrator, and the boys in the group got to be the animals, which they had made puppets for. Shelby did a really good job. Since the owl did the same thing for every question the animals asked, she got to repeat the same lines over and over again. She actually didn't seem nervous one bit. We all enjoyed watching her, especially Taylor. I'm glad the teacher thought to invite the families to come watch.