19/11/10

Period 1

In this lesson we worked on adding the end to scene 5, the scene where each character brings a part of Christmas to Bear.

It starts when Mouse is kicked from Bears house after trying to get their Christmas back from him. The other animals make a plan, realising that he only cancelled Christmas because he was lonely, so to show him that the animals were no longer afraid of him, they decide to bring Christmas to him.

Each character apears one at a time, except for the frogs who always appear together. Rosie Rabbit appears first, taking the Christmas decorations, but the tinsel has become entangled around her ears, she then asks the audience to help her untangle it. She then goes to Bears house and knocks on the door. Impatient after the previous incident with people knocking on his door, Bear opens the door in a bad mood and becomes confused when Rosie Rabbit wishes him a Merry Christmas, she then hangs the tinsel around the door, Bear acts grumpy and closes the door. Rosie Rabbit sits down outside of the door and waits for the next people to arrive.

The two Frogs appear, Frankie and Freddie, Frankie carrying a cake and Freddie carrying presents, on the way over to bears house, Frankie asks Freddie to hold the cake, but to do this he has to drop the presents he is holding, when he goes to shout at Frankie for making him drop the presents, Frankie pushes his head into the cake and begins to laugh. Freddie, annoyed, then tells Frankie he has a present for him and Frankie becomes excited, as he turns round, his face is then pushed into the cake. The two giggle at each other for looking so silly and pick up the presents and the squashed cake and walk to bears house. When they knock on his door, Bear opens, still grumpy, the Frogs wish him a Merry Christmas also and Freddie puts the presents down, saying that he brought presents, then Frankie puts the cake down, saying he brought cake, but it got a little 'smushed'. Bear then rolls his eyes, clearly irritated and closes the door. The two frogs sit by Rosie Rabbit as Mr Owl makes his way to Bears door.

Mr Owl approaches carrying a book, he hobbles over in a typical old man fashion, and he knocks on the door, Bear opens it, almost so used to being bothered now that it doesnt bother him. Owl says that he brought a book because it isn't Christmas without the Christmas story.  Bear grumbles and closes the door again, and Owl goes to join the others.

Lastly, Molly 'The Mighty' Mouse appears, carrying nothing, she walks in and signals the others to come and stand with her, they stand by the door and become Carol Singers, singing Silent Night. Bear slowly opens the door, peeking round curiously. When  they reach the end of the song, Molly wishes the Bear a Merry Christmas, saying that she brought Family, because it isn't Christmas without family. The Bear then takes a moment, looking around at everyone, and at all the things they brought with them, and he says "Well... i do like decorations... and i do like presents, and cake... and i do like Christmas Stories... and i really really like Family..." and then decides that cancelling Christmas was the wrong thing to do, he then decides to give them back their Christmas, he rips down the Christmas is Cancelled sign and this ends the scene.