A post from Vim.
A Tony?, A BAFTA? An OSCAR?....or the next Bollywood Sensation.
A week ago Milan told his parents he had to make a lion mask for a school ‘end of unit’ show. Well that’s all we did. Now these shows are created to emphasize all the work the kids have put in to learn about a particular subject matter in detail. And believe me they do, at that age group learn a lot. You can see the imaginative growth in from his creative thinking of studies, culture comparisons, socially today verses this time last year.
This particular ‘End Of Unit’ show was to emphasize animals, animal groupings and how they live/survive in the wild. The stage was a make shift open area in a class room, and in usual Indian style make do with what you have and get on with it. Even for an International School the set up was bad, lots of chaos with excited kids, bad sound set-up and teachers playing chase, trying to get the kids settled. But it’s the content and quality we must judge!
Lights, Camera, Sound, Action. The acted out play was "The Big Lion and the Rabbits". The twist was that even though the Lion is the King of the Jungle and all animals are to be afraid of him, he can be out smarted by the smallest of animals, the Rabbits. Sad to say the Lion was killed in the end by the a trick from those cute bunnies.
As the show started, I was shocked! Milan was the lead character. That monkey of ours never told us what role he was playing so I only bought the camera for pictures. He acted out the narrated play extremely well. The two Rabbits also did an awesome job along with all the other animals he was jumping on and pretending to kill/eat. They all nailed their respective roles. At the end he stood proud and was congratulated by the other moms…..ok at that moment it should have been me standing there! He did a job that all family and friends would have been proud of - pictures below...
A Tony?, A BAFTA? An OSCAR?....or the next Bollywood Sensation.
A week ago Milan told his parents he had to make a lion mask for a school ‘end of unit’ show. Well that’s all we did. Now these shows are created to emphasize all the work the kids have put in to learn about a particular subject matter in detail. And believe me they do, at that age group learn a lot. You can see the imaginative growth in from his creative thinking of studies, culture comparisons, socially today verses this time last year.
This particular ‘End Of Unit’ show was to emphasize animals, animal groupings and how they live/survive in the wild. The stage was a make shift open area in a class room, and in usual Indian style make do with what you have and get on with it. Even for an International School the set up was bad, lots of chaos with excited kids, bad sound set-up and teachers playing chase, trying to get the kids settled. But it’s the content and quality we must judge!
Lights, Camera, Sound, Action. The acted out play was "The Big Lion and the Rabbits". The twist was that even though the Lion is the King of the Jungle and all animals are to be afraid of him, he can be out smarted by the smallest of animals, the Rabbits. Sad to say the Lion was killed in the end by the a trick from those cute bunnies.
As the show started, I was shocked! Milan was the lead character. That monkey of ours never told us what role he was playing so I only bought the camera for pictures. He acted out the narrated play extremely well. The two Rabbits also did an awesome job along with all the other animals he was jumping on and pretending to kill/eat. They all nailed their respective roles. At the end he stood proud and was congratulated by the other moms…..ok at that moment it should have been me standing there! He did a job that all family and friends would have been proud of - pictures below...
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