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2nd & 3rd Grade Activity Make Your Own Music MU.A.2.1. MA.D.1.1. Tell Your Own Story LA.B.1.1. Pre-K- 1st grade Activity Animal Fact Safari SC.F.1.1.

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Before/After the Show Activity Ideas Goals of this Issue Relevant Vocabulary Class Acts Program Evaluations How to Get to the Performance How to Contact Us

Animal Safari Stories

Katie Adams’ Make Believe Theater presents Sunken

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Monday - Thursday,

October 17 - 20, 2005

Grades PreK-3

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Class Acts Teacher Resource Guides are spon-sored by the Mahaffey Theater/City of St. Peters-burg, FL and their partner the Mahaffey Theater Foundation for the Performing Arts.

Supervising Editor …….......Elizabeth Brincklow Education Program CoordinatorCoordinating Editor ……..........Fremont Sheldon Education AssociateWriting and Artistic Design........Missy Schlesman

EVALUATIONS can be completed on the form provided. Your input is very important and useful to the theater’s education program. Plus, your evaluations will be placed in drawings for class appropriate prizes!

Class Acts is presented by the Mahaffey Theater for the Perform-ing Arts and the Mahaffey Theater Foundation with the support from the Division of Cultural Affairs, Florida Arts Council, Flori-da Department of State, Pinellas County Arts Council, and the City of St. Petersburg.

YOUR ROLE IN THE PRODUCTION

ARRIVAL Please plan to arrive at least 20 minutes before show time. Proceed to the en-trance with your group and look for the sign-in table. A designated representative must stop and sign in for the entire group.

Upon entrance, ushers will seat groups on a first come, first served basis and will seat your group as quickly and as efficiently as pos-sible. After your group is seated, the restroom may be visited. Young students should be escorted.

EXITING Ushers will help your group move out of the theater in a quick and orderly fash-ion. You will be directed to the parking area using various routes. Exit routes may be different from your entrance path due to the ingress of students entering for the next per-formance. Please follow the ushers’ directions.

DIRECTIONS TO THE COLISEUM

QUESTIONS AND CORRESPONDENCEClass Acts, The Coliseum535 4th Ave. N., St. Petersburg, FL 33701-4346ATTN: Class Acts/ Perkins Elementary SchoolPony Route #5 Phone 727-892-5800Fax 727-892-5770 www.stpete.org/mahaffey.htm

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FOR THE TEACHER PAGEBefore/After the Show

In This Issue Your Students Will:

• Students will learn details about certain animal species; their structure and function in the environment. SC.F.1.1.

• Students will create their own animal folk tale in a guided writing activity. LA.B.1.1.

• Students will have the opportunity to learn about, execute and create musical patterns comprised of different note values. MU.A.2.1., MA.D.1.1

• Students will get general overview of different instruments from different cultures. SS.B.1.1

• Students will be introduced to the interactive theatrical style of a storytelling presentation and the etiquette that it demands. LA.C.

• Pre-K - grade 1: Tear out page 4 (Make Your Own Music) and laminate the chart. Then, cut out the individual notes. Using either tape or magnetic backing, display a new set of notes to be clapped out each day for a week and see which student(s) can clap it out perfectly. Or, have students make up a rhythm and then see if you can notate it for them using the note cutouts. MU.A.2.1., MA.D.1.1

• Pre-K - grade 1: You can adapt the activity on page 8 (Tell Your Own Story) for your students by doing the activity as a class. Ask the outline questions of them as a group and dictate the story for them. Create one empty storyboard for them by arranging their words as a story across several sheets of paper. Either have them illustrate the story as a group or make enough copies for each student to have a set and make his or her own book out of it. Or, send page 8 home as a fun activity and have your students dictate the story to a parent, grandparent or older sibling and illustrate their own book there. LA.B.1.1

• Grades 2 and 3: Incorporate the activity on page 8 with any unit you may be doing on animals. Have the students use any facts they learn about the animal during their classroom research in their story. LA.B.1.1, LA.B.2.2.5

• All Grades: Play the telephone game with your class. Whisper a short message to one student and have that student pass it along to another. Have each student pass the message to another in this way until all the students have heard it. Ask the last student to repeat the message for the whole class. Talk about how stories and legends are passed down and how the story changes with each telling. LA.C

• Make a Rain Stick using the website listed on page 10: (my.hsonline.net/~kidatart/htdoc/lesson44.htm).

• Before the Show: *Read all or some of the stories listed under “Related Folktales” on Page 10 of this guide. Discuss the idea of the folk tale. What it is, its reason for being, etc. LA.E.1.1.1

o Share some information about Africa, the American Southwest, Brazil, the Rainforest and the Philippines with your students. (See page 10 “Geography” for books found at your local library. SS.B.1.1., SS.B.2.1.

● After the Show: *Compare and contrast the stories Katie told with the stories found in the books read prior to the show (See page 10 “Related Folktales”). Discuss the cause and effect of the characters’ behavior. Discuss the life lesson or moral contained in each story. LA.E.1.1.1, LA.E.1.2.1 ● Go over the stories from the show with your students. Pick one of the stories (or pick one episode). Be sure to have a beginning, middle, and an end. Ask the students to form a circle and let the fi rst child begin telling the story. At a prearranged signal from you, the next child in the circle must take up the story. Keep going until everyone has a turn and the story is told. TH.A.1.1.1, TH.A.1.2.1,LA.B.2.2.5, LA.C

o *Turn a favorite fairy tale into a “fractured fairy tale”. Example- Make Goldilocks a beauty queen and the three bears farmers. LA.B.2.2.5

o *Find an interesting item or photo and invent a story about it. LA.B.2.2.5

*From Katie Adams’ Animal Safari Stories Study Guide

*Folk tale: A story or legend forming part of an oral tradition. (American Heritage Dictionary)

An orphan boy sat on a great stone, mending an arrow. And the stone spoke: “ Shall I tell you stories?” The boy said, “What are stories?” the stone answered, “All the things in the world before this.” From that stone came all the stories that the Seneca nation tell to one another. - A Seneca Indian tale, from Tales as Tools.

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Note Value Key:= 1 clap

= 1 clap + hold for 1 beat

= 1 quick clap counted as “and”

= 1 clap + hold for 3 more beats

= no clap for one beat

ake Your Own Music

note values based on basic 4/4 time

See if you can clap out a rhythm of your own! Cut out each of the notes in the chart below. Then, line up four notes per measure on the staff on page 5. ( The first measure is already done for you as an example). Use the note value box at the bottom left-hand corner of page 4 as a guide for clapping. Have fun!!!!

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Animal Fact SafariLet’s go on a safari!!! But not just any safari … this is a fact-fi nding safari. Facts are things we know about something. Where do we go to get our facts? Books!!! Or the internet.

What facts are we hunting for today? Facts about spiders, butterfl ies, coyotes and crocodiles! See if you can fi nd out the answers to the following questions using books in your classroom or library, or the internet from your classroom or home computer. You can write your answers, draw pictures, or just say the answer out loud. Happy hunting!!

Fact 1: Where do these animals live?

Spider:

Butterfly:

Coyote:

Crocodile:

Spider:

Butterfly:

Coyote:

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Fact 2: What do these animals eat?

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Fact 3: How do they protect themselves against danger?

Spider:

Butterfly:

Coyote:

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Fact 4: How many eyes do they have? How many legs? How do they hear?

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Fact 5: On a separate sheet of paper, draw a picture of what they look like as babies:

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III. Charactersa. How many characters are in the story? List the characters. What are their names?

b. What do they look like?

c. What happens to them?

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Tell Your Own StoryWrite your own animal story! Choose an animal, or a couple of animals, to write about and then answer the questions below to help you organize your thoughts.

Now that you have some ideas down on paper, take out some more paper and begin writing your story. Then, you can add pictures and a cover, and Voila! You have you’re very own book!

I. Settinga. Where does your animal live? Where does the story take place?

b. What does it look like? What does it smell like? What are the sounds you might hear there?

II. Plot a. What is the story about?

b. What happens in the story? How does it happen?

c. Then what?

d. How does it end?

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For EveryoneNow that you have some ideas down on paper, take out some more paper and begin writing your story. Then, you can add pictures and a cover, and Voila! You have you’re very own book!

Rain stick - A hollow bamboo log with beans, rice or beads inside that hit against bamboo or brass rods when the stick is turned, suggesting the sound of rain.

Kalimba or Thumb Piano - an African rhythm instrument built around a gourd and played with the thumbs.

Combines the action of the tambourine with the drum. It can be shaken or hit with a drum stick.

Hollow wood instrument hit with a drum stick that can make a rasping sound or a percussive knocking sound

InstrumentalImportance

Tambourine Drum

Wood block

The instruments on this page are featured in Katie’s show, Animal Safari Stories. Some come from Africa, like the Kalimba to the right, and some from other cultures in South America like the Tambourine Drum and Wood Block. And still others, like the Rainstick, have their roots in Indian cultures from the Southwestern United States as well as South America.

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To be shared with students prior to show time:

In the show you’re about to see, an actress named Katie Adams is going to share stories about animals from around the world. But instead of reading from a book, she’s going to tell the story using her voice and her body to create the sights, sounds and sensations of each story. She’s even going to use instruments!

She’s going to need your help though. You need to bring two things with you to the performance: Your imagination and your best theater manners.

You’re going to need your imagination to help Katie create each scene. She may even ask you to pretend you’re an animal and make some nature noises at certain points during the show.

And, you need your best theater manners to ensure that everyone in the audience has a good time – including you!

What are good theater manners? Oh, they’re magical! When you have good theater manners, you only talk when Katie invites you to do so. That way, everyone can hear what’s going on without shushing the people who are talking when they’re not supposed to be talking. You listen carefully and pay attention to what’s happening on stage because Katie’s going to be speaking and moving around a lot and you don’t want to miss anything.

And, if Katie needs us to play our part in the show and make a snake sound, you don’t want to miss your cue, do you?

Of course not!

So, make sure you pack your imagination AND your theater manners in your pocket.

We’ll see you at the show!

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ABOUT THE PERFORMER

ABOUT THE SHOW

Tampa is very lucky to count nationally recognized puppeteer Katie Adams among its local performers. A member of the Puppeteers of America and the National Storytelling Network, Katie and her Make Believe Theater have been entertaining families with her delightfully original shows since 1999.

A graduate of Alfred University where earned her degree studying sculpture and theater, Katie honed her puppetry and storytelling skills with the Creative Arts Theater division of the Tampa Recreation Department before starting her own theater company. Katie is

proud of her participation with the Artist-In-the-Schools program through the Arts Council of Hillsborough County as well as character education shows for Learning for Life. Recent credits also include the Eugene O’Neill Puppetry Conference, the Smithsonian Discovery Theater and the Great Arizona Puppet Theater.

Katie Adams’ Animal Safari Stories will transport young audience members to various locations throughout the world. Through her highly animated storytelling, Katie invites her fellow travelers to experience each culture through audience participation, imaginative mime and featured rhythm instruments.

Stories include Anansi and His Six Sons, Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies, The Crocodile’s Tale and Papagayo.

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Resources to Read, Surf and Watch ....

Related Folk TalesAruego, Jose, Crocodile’s Tale, Scholastic, 1976McDermott, Gerald, Anansi the Spider: A Tale from Ashanti, Henry Holt & Co., 1987McDermott, Gerald, Papagayo: The Mischief Maker, Voyager Books, 1992Taylor, Harriet Peck, Coyote and the Laughing Butterflies, Simon & Schuster, 1995

Music/Musical InstrumentsBarber, Nicola, The World of Music, Silver Burdett, 1995Doney, Meryl, Musical Instruments, Franklin Watts, 1995Fichter, George S., American Indian Music and Musical Instruments, McKay, 1978Tythacott, Louise, Musical Instruments, Thomson Learning, 1995www.my.hsonline.net/~kidatart/htdoc/lesson44.htm

AnimalsEdwards, G.B., Florida’s Fabulous Spiders, World Publications, 2001Greenaway, Theresa, Spiders, Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 1999Pascoe, Elaine, Butterflies and Moths, Blackbirch Press, 1997Petty, Kate, I Didn’t Know That Crocodiles Yawned to Keep Cool, Cooper Beech Books, 1998Pope, Joyce, Crocodile, Habitats, Life Cycles, Food Chains, Threats, Raintree Steck-Vaughn, 2001Ross, Michael Elsohn, Spiderology, Carolrhoda Books, 2000Simon, Seymour, Crocodiles and Alligators, HarperCollins, 1999Swanson, Diane, Coyotes, Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2002VanCleave, Janice Pratt, Janice VanCleave’s Insects and Spiders: Mind-Boggling Experiments You Can Turn into Science Fair Projects, J. Wiley, 1998www.butterflywebsite.com www.desertusa.com/june96/du_cycot.htmlwww.amonline.net.au/spiderswww.fpl.com/environment/endangered/contents/american_crocodiles.shtml

StorytellingGriffin, Barbara Budge, Students as Storytellers: the Long and Short of Learning a Story, 1989Kinghorn, Harriet R., Every Child is a Storyteller: a Handbook of Ideas, Teachers Ideas Press, 1991

All book titles can be found at your local library