What are Super Hero Postcard Stories?
What are Super Hero Postcard Stories? It’s fairly self explanatory. Students create stories about a super hero, but there’s a catch. (sorry, no spoiler here–you’ll just have to check out the product.) Every year, I taught a storytelling unit–it lasts three weeks and culminated in a storytelling festival. One of the least stressful performing experieinces […]
Kabuki Theatre for Girls
Today, let’s discuss Kabuki Theatre for Girls? Readers ask me why I created a story which included Kabuki theatre. Here is the book:http://tinyurl.com/n5at3oh Kabuki Theatre for Girls When I was sixteen years old, my parents and I traveled to Japan for a vacation. My grandparents were missionaries in Japan prior to WWII and my mother […]
Bumbling Bea: The First Chapter
“P!” I yelled to get his attention, “Do I look like old Macdonald on the farm to you?”
Bumbling Bea’s Mantra
Bumbling Bea’s Mantra about Sarcasm
Notable Quote from Bumbling Bea
Michiko slapped her script and blurted,” Ms. Phillips this script is inaccurate. This is a mistake. Pocahontas did not wear any clothes when John Smith met her. She was naked.” The whole cast broke out in fits of laughter. The fifth graders were no longer bored and several turned bright red in the face. Peter’s eyes […]
Notable quote from Bumbling Bea
Popular kids have a special talent that nobody else noticed but me. They are fortune tellers. They can see the future for all of us. “So-and-So is on her way to Broadway!” and “Hollywood, here comes So-and-So!” the popular kids say after the school play is over. Sometimes at football or basketball games or maybe […]