27/10/10 - Rachel

We worked on our childrens plays in our groups.

I was in the group which had Sophie the Spoilt Fairy in it.

We had decided to do a short story wherein Sophie talks about all the pretty things she wants for Christmas, and how she wants to have all the presents to herself, when the presents are being passed around, she looks at them as if she wants them, her family then tell her that she has to wait for Christmas morning and that it is time for bed, Sophie then pretends to go to bed but hides behind the Christmas tree until everyone is gone. In the night, Ellie the Elf comes in to deliever presents for Santa, as she counts with the children as she puts the presents under the tree, Sophie is taking the presents away for herself. When she gets to the final present, she grabs it before Ellie has let go, so they spot each other. Sophie is suprised that Ellie is not Santa Claus and asks her who she is. Ellie introduces herself and says that Sophie is rude for stealing the presents and that she wont get anything nice unless she behaves and isn't spoilt, but Sophia doesn't listen. She then goes to bed and dreams about the presents she wants. She then wakes up and finds that everyone else has the presents she wants and she only gets a diary, there is a message inside the diary from santa, explaining that it is not how pretty she is, or the amount of clothes she has that matters, but that it's what's inside that counts, how nice she is to others, and she writes in her diary that she has learnt that it is what is inside that counts.

After performing it, we were then evalutated, we found that we needed to work the moral of the story into it slightly better, because the only way she knew that it's what's inside that counts was because Santa told her, she didn't learn it properly, and although the staging was good, we need to work on where people are when they are 'offstage' as the school we are performing in may not have somewhere we can use as backstage.

We then offered our stimuli that we had brought in, to the group we had the following:

• Sarah - How the Grinch stole Christmas - He's not evil he has just never been shown how to love/share

Great character who just needs to be taught about Christmas spirit

Nobody understands him

Flashbacks to when he was at school

Narration

Taran- Mr Men - Great characters to use in terms of learning something (Eg, Mr Messy learns to be tidy)

• Leanne - Pinocchio

Goes on a journey when he becomes a real boy

Learns not to lie

Characters: fairy - jiminy cricket - jippeto - cat - Pinocchio - Stromboli

Challenge: Nose growing, making the moral clear

• Abbi E - Barney live

Character took the bag
Took the bag so they would all follow him
Realises he had to give the bag back to make them his friends

Use Santa's bag instead of the barney bag
Use Christmas music
Animals children's friends
Jack frost as bad guy.