Stories by Groups

Four people created each picture -- one drew the head and then folded down the paper; one drew the body, one drew the legs, and one drew the feet. Similarly, four people wrote each story, each person writing only a few lines.

This is the story of Baby Dude:

Anna reading the story of Baby Dude:

This is the story of Boxing Girl:

Anna reading the story of Boxing Girl:

This is the story of Colby:

Anna reading the story of Colby:


This is the story of Molly & Mrs. Longneck:

Anna reading the story of Molly & Mrs. Longneck:

Two More Puppets!

Here are a few of the puppets the kids created on Friday. Bartholomew the Gentleman is "oh so refined."

This Super Puppet has rectangular orange teeth!

Rhodedendrums and Connor's Puppet Show

"I got this idea because I wanted to do the puppet show at King Street Youth Center, and it's really fun to make puppet shows. The only character in my show is called Rhodedendrums, it's like she loves singing, she sings one song-- the ABCs, and a little of Patty Cake. She's a movie star and she has an mp3 player, she went down under her basement so that she won't get caught by the paparazzi, and she's kind of dumb. I had 100% fun on it! It was really really fun."

-Connor

Home Construction

Yesterday, 10/25/2007, Libby and Natalia led the homework room in a house-building project.

Anna interviews Natalia on today's construction project:

Our roving reporter Andrew interviews home-builders, people-makers, plus Peggy and Connor the singer:

This is a picture of Anna carefully creating walls:

Misky decorated her walls with markers before gluing them together:

Ryan's finished house:

Eric changed the parameters of the initial idea just a bit . . .

Puppets and airplanes

Live Puppet Show!

The ravenous Supper Puppet eats other puppets and people!

With all the Red Sox fever around here, it's not surprising that one of the puppets reported on a game!







It's a skateboarder! It's a plane! It's a skateboarder plane!

Shauneen inquires about airplane making:


Shauneen hears about a jet:

Treasure Maps and Past-Present-Future

Hawa's treasure map












Colby's treasure map














Anna, Eric, and Iliana talk about their pasts, presents, and futures:

Andrew Entertains!

Puppet mania continues, just when you thought it was safe to eat lunch again...

For next week, we plan on creating some new puppets in the afternoon as well as building up and decorating our new stage. We will also start practicing some shows with our new puppets and thinking of ideas for stories or adventures. Some of which may (with luck) involve Mr. Winking Cow.

-Tim and Jeff

Puppets, puppets, puppets!

On Friday, Tim and Jeff made more puppets with the afterschoolers. Here's one of the shows they produced. There were some truly fantastic puppets made, including Shayleen's "perfect puppet," Dylan's hungry puppet, and Eric's alien monster puppet (who was visiting us from Neptune and eating our cows). Below is a super puppet who can "beat anyone up." Watch out!

Here are some photographs of the puppets that the kids created:

Fun with the Recorder

News Flash: 20 Questions in the Homework Room!

Last Thursday Natalia and Libby led a rowdy game of 20 Questions--Animal Edition--in the Home Work Room.

Our roving reporter caught the fun on tape:

Monday in the Homework Room

On Monday, Shauneen and Molly led afterschoolers in a letter-writing campaign. Here are some of the kids' creations:

Why Lili Is Writing to Elia: