BE OUR GUEST: Last night we went to the lovely Paramount Theatre to see a touring production of Broadway's "Beauty and the Beast."
It was a full house, with lots of families in attendance. If I were to write a review, I'd say the sets were the most impressive part of the production. But let's leave the rest of the reviewing to CJ and Annabelle. Today, instead of putting pencil to paper for their writing practice, I asked them each to email me a review. That gave them practice opening and using their email accounts, and keyboarding practice to boot. Plus, then I was able to just copy and paste their reviews. :)
Beauty And The Beast was a "OKAY" play. It had singing, dancing, and had SOOOOO MUCH AND SOOOOO MUCH MORE. It was very similar to the movie, mainly because of the lines, and the music. (And not to forget the costumes!)
Beauty And the Beast Had a great stage, mainly because of the decoration. Beauty And The Beast had great characters. (Including Belle and the Beast!) Beauty And The Beast had great special effects, Like fog, Floating things, And more. Overall, Beauty And The Beast gets a 10/10. THE END!
Beauty And The Beast by Annabelle
The Beauty and the Beast play was very good! The lines sounded like the actual movie and the costumes were great! The lights were very flashy, especially when the beast turned back into a prince.Here are the kids waiting out in the lobby ...
My favorite parts were the "Be our guest," song and the part just talked about,the part when the Beast turns back into the prince.The settings looked very good and neat,too! Lumiere's flames and the fireplace weren't real fire, but looked like it! Overall, it was a very great play!
The End.
And here's a bad cell phone shot of the marquee after the show. If you look closely in the crowd, you might see Rick and Ken, who also enjoyed the show (but probably wouldn't include quite as many exclamation points in a written review).
A DIFFERENT APPROACH: This has been the face of math in our house the last couple of days:
Not happy - long struggles at the counter top with math books and scratch paper. Today I decided we all needed a change, so I grabbed a small dry erase board and the three of us sat on the couch and worked through multiple long division problems together.
There were a few bumps, but overall it was a lot less stressful and the kids seemed to be catching on when it came to remembering the steps involved.
PROJECTS: The kids spent some time building with LEGOs today. CJ was very impressed with a rescue vehicle Annabelle constructed.
Annabelle spent some time on Disney's Web site today - specifically in the "Create" part of go,disney.com.
Using the Wild Tales: Wolves Edition Motion Comic she came up with this:
IT IS WRITTEN: This morning, CJ began quizzing me about the Bible. Not its contents, but its history. He wanted to know when and where the first Bible was published, what the 'newest' Bible is, about different versions of it, and so on.
So, we spent some time doing some Internet research. We talked about the first printed version - the Gutenberg Bible, and learned that it was the first major book in the west to be printed with movable type, and the first major book produced using a printing press anywhere in the world. The Library of Congress' copy is pictured here:
photo by Mark Pellegrini on August 12, 2002
We learned that as of 2009, just 48 of Gutenberg's 42-line (per page) Bibles were known to exist, but only 21 of those 48 were complete.
We talked about how there is no single or common version of the Bible, as the book has been hand transcribed or printed in countless variations, with changed content and order varying between denominations. We also talked about how translating it between languages can result in some changes.
CJ began browsing high-priced Bibles on eBay. We saw some with several hundred dollar price tags.
She didn't hesitate in responding, "No, not at all."
It was just so nice to hear 7 and 8 year old siblings talking to each other so politely, and I told them so.
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