children's club at the dar chebab
It's now summertime - school is over, the carnival is in town, temperatures have gotten over 100 degrees several times already, and English lessons have tapered off. So I have been working with the newly formed Children's Club which is led by a very energetic preschool teacher and the members are middle school age students. The club puts on activities and performances for young children. We practiced all week for the first show on Sunday.
There were many different parts of the show, but my great success was the dances I taught them. It was totally awesome. I knew those dance lessons from middle/high school gym class would be useful someday.
The Alley Cat! (or as I translated it: the cat dancing on the small street)
They got those moves down - legs out, up, clap & turn
Can you guess what dance this might be?
That's right, it's the Chicken Dance and it was fast & exciting
And the Limbo!
Littler kids do have the advantage
Activities with kids always involve a lot of group songs with tons of clapping, also useful for stalling between acts
Some of the audience - about fifty kids came for this first show. Pretty good for a Sunday morning when we've also been competing with the carnival outside. The shows are also fundraisers so we can buy materials to put on a puppet show
There were also several small plays in the show. This one was a comedy about this sucker with two prankster 'corpses' in a mausoleum. Yes, they really did light his newspaper on fire
There were also some games with participants from the audience. They weren't exactly games as much as tricking kids and laughing at them. In this one kids sit facing forward in a line of chairs following the instructions of the leader including sitting and standing. The last person in the line ends up sitting on a wet sponge but is quickly silenced so everyone in the line falls for it one at a time
There were still plenty of volunteers for the next game too. You lie on the table with a cloth tube (pants) over your head. You can see the person asking you questions. But you can't see the paper cone with water being poured onto your face. Sucker! It was funny and the kids liked it
Until next time...... the end!
There were many different parts of the show, but my great success was the dances I taught them. It was totally awesome. I knew those dance lessons from middle/high school gym class would be useful someday.
The Alley Cat! (or as I translated it: the cat dancing on the small street)
They got those moves down - legs out, up, clap & turn
Can you guess what dance this might be?
That's right, it's the Chicken Dance and it was fast & exciting
And the Limbo!
Littler kids do have the advantage
Activities with kids always involve a lot of group songs with tons of clapping, also useful for stalling between acts
Some of the audience - about fifty kids came for this first show. Pretty good for a Sunday morning when we've also been competing with the carnival outside. The shows are also fundraisers so we can buy materials to put on a puppet show
There were also several small plays in the show. This one was a comedy about this sucker with two prankster 'corpses' in a mausoleum. Yes, they really did light his newspaper on fire
There were also some games with participants from the audience. They weren't exactly games as much as tricking kids and laughing at them. In this one kids sit facing forward in a line of chairs following the instructions of the leader including sitting and standing. The last person in the line ends up sitting on a wet sponge but is quickly silenced so everyone in the line falls for it one at a time
There were still plenty of volunteers for the next game too. You lie on the table with a cloth tube (pants) over your head. You can see the person asking you questions. But you can't see the paper cone with water being poured onto your face. Sucker! It was funny and the kids liked it
Until next time...... the end!
posted by Marc at 1:27 PM
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