Peter & the wolf ballet
Tuesday, September 22nd, 2009
Around September most years we take our children to see the ballet of Peter and the Wolf. It is staged by a local ballet school and is very well done. The children love it.
We make sure they get the most out of it by playing the music a lot, even incidentally in the background as they are doing other things, reading the story to them, having puppet shows and acting it out.
We even practice sitting as an audience and listening to the music, and story being read on CD.
Even in the playground they continued acting out the story.
By the time they actually see the show they know it back to front.
All this beautiful music seems to have spurred a largish group of children to request a big variety of classical music to be put on every day for weeks so they can dance and act out dramas to it. Some of the girls do ballet classes and have been showing off their skills.
Our student teacher picked up on this and asked if they would like to make some props to aid their dancing. They decided on something they could whoosh around and settled on attaching colourful ribbons to pop sticks.They danced and leapt around the room whizzing these colourful streamers, a bit like gymnasts do, and had a wonderful time.
Our student teacher found some pictures of the five positions in ballet which the children copied. It was gorgeous seeing them assume the correct stances.
