CHEERIOS: BREAKFAST IN GREAT BRITAIN----THE RED KITE PROJECT PHASE 2

Posted on 12/11/2007 at 09:34:43 AM by Jacqueline Russell

Hello Friends in Room 208 and 307. Thanks for writing to me! Hi Dejuan. I am staying at Tim and Amanda's house---they are two of the people you met in October when we performed the 'House of the Winds' for you. Tim played the Captain. They have a lovely house in London. Billy, I miss you, too! Donald, I will be back in the classroom with you all next Friday, December 21st at Drama Time. Jackson, the weather here is chilly, but not as cold as Chicago. Today the sun is shining. Yay, I love to see the sun shining. Don't you? How is the weather in Chicago?
Irene, thanks for the seasickness advice. I flew here on a plane. The plane ride took 6 and half hours. It is also 6 hours later here. So if it is midnight in Chicago, it is 6 AM in the morning here in England. So, I am not seasick right now but jetlagged---this mean my body thinks it is still in Chicago and feels like I should be sleeping while everyone here is up and working---all cheery and wide awake----while I am yawning a lot and drinking loads of coffee! I also had a bowl of Cheerios for breakfast this morning. They are as popular here as they are in America.

Yesterday we had a brainstorming meeting (this is when we sit together and share our ideas with each other about the new show) about our new RED KITE production. The play will be on Navy Pier at the Chicago Children's Museum and we are thinking that our set will now be a big ship, called The Red Kite. Tim told me he thinks that the Red Kite should have 'Cody Kites' as sails. Can you all learn something about Cody Kites on the internet or from your library and let me know what you think of them? I have never heard of them before.

If we sail our imaginary ship with Cody Kites then Tim thinks we should sail all the way to the moon! What do you think of that idea? A play about a ship that has these powerful kites that lift if out of the water and take it all the way to the moon? What can you imagine we would find on the moon? Let's accept that we know the moon is filled with rocks and has no one living on it. But in your imagination---there could be ANYTHING on the moon! There could be marshmallow mountains or marooned space ships. I am thinking it would be fun to find a new kind of animal called a Moon Bunny. What would it look like? What would it eat? Can you share some of your ideas with me so I can give them to Tim as he writes the new play?

That's it for today. I need to get back to work.

Write back. Love, Jacqui

2 Comments
Posted Dec 11, 2007 2:28 PM by David Rench
Irene said they could bounce around the moon because there is less gravity on the moon. Abou said you could find some rocks while your looking for the moon bunny. Maybe they could see the rocks and talk about it. Billy said maybe they could make a wish on the stars. Abou added they could play games on the ship. Irene said the game should be the 'less gravity race' where they pretend to float kinda like swimming to the finish line. Dejuan thinks the moon is going to be dark and you could sleep in the dark or together we thought of flashlights. Hope this helps.
Posted Dec 13, 2007 2:27 PM by dave rench
Eric and Abou thought that maybe the moon was blocked by clouds. Irene added that maybe an evil villian made the clouds come in front of the moon. Abou also thought that maybe someone got a big cardboard box and flew up in the sky and blocked the moon. We will try to add more tomorrow. Love Agassiz

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