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This term's focus....**PUPPETS**!!!! Part of our literacy activities will have students reading, analysing and acting out a variety of plays, as well as planning, designing and producing their own unique puppet show.

We are using this website [|(CLICK HERE)] to research different types of puppets. This week (week 4) we will be posting the most informative replies to a discussion post here on this page, so stay tuned!

This week's winners for the most informative posts are.... Edward and Isabella!!! Great effort!

Edward wrote......

//Marionettes have fully sculptured head. Marionettes with more than one string are attached to a wooden control. Glove puppets bodies are shaped as gloves and they have cotton heads that are hollow inside. The puppeteers hand goes inside the glove shaped puppet and controls the hand of the puppet and the head of the puppet. First you have movement than sound than you have dialogue. If you have a play with just moving it will be boring and loses interest for the audience. A puppet is like and instrument that humans cannot. You don’t really need a stage you can use a table with a cloth on it so your puppet can move around.//

Isabella wrote... //Marionette is one of the styles of puppets I will have in my play. Marionette can be a full head to toe puppet or can be a simple puppet with a head and a skirt attached to the puppet’s neck. Marionettes have string attached to different parts of the puppets body. Marionettes are controlled by a wooden of plastic rod that the stings on the marionettes are attached to. Banraku style puppets originate in Japan. The puppets have moving eyes, mouths and eye brows. They are around about half to three quarters of the height of a human. The puppets are controlled by one, two or three puppeteers. It is only the puppet master who does not wear a hood or is dressed entirely in black. Junior puppeteers can control the feet while others can control the arms, as well as the head. The puppeteers are seen during the play, but the audience get so interested by the play that they forget that the puppeteers are there.//

BOOK REPORTS

This week students were asked to review a favourite book. The two published book reports for this week are from Liam and Anthea. Well done!

Liam wrote... //Title: Goosebumps- Revenge of the living dummy Book series: Goosebumps Author: R.L. Stine Genre: Adventure, scary. If you like scary adventurous books then this book is for you! This book is about a girl that has a cousin that comes to stay over for 5 weeks. Doesn’t sound scary you say? Wrong. The thing is that her cousin bought a dummy called Mr.Badboy. She watches a puppet play with Mr.Badboy. When the puppet show ends the girls cousin lays the dummy on the bed and then Mr.Badboy talks!!! I won’t tell you the rest. Audience: Girls and Boys will like this book. Well anybody will if they dare! //

Anthea wrote... //TITLE: My pants are haunted! BOOK SERIES: Dear Dumb Diary AUTHOR: Jim Benton GENRE: fiction BOOK SUMMARY: There’s a girl and her name is Jamie Kelly. Her best friend is Isabella she is very intelligent. Jamie realises that her pants are haunted and they're the only pair that she has! Luckily her mum buys her a new pair of jeans. Jamie sells the haunted pants to Angeline (the perfect mean girl). Angeline finally realises that they are haunted she tries to tell people but nobody believes her so she gets rid of them. AUDIENCE: girls mostly aged 9-12, why? It's girls humour (I think)//



=PUPPET PROFILES =

This week our two puppet profiles come from Lachlan and Izzy (yes, this is Izzy's SECOND time having her work published on the literacy page!) Congratulations to you both!!! Once Lachlan and Izzy's puppets are completed, they will be able to upload pictures of their puppets here.

Lachlan wrote... //NAME: Baby Snowman AGE: Baby Snowman is 4 years old SPECIES: Snowman PERSONALITY: Baby Snowman’s personality is cute and adorable he also has a sweet tooth for lolly-pops, chocolate and icy poles. Baby Snowman’s hobbies are hanging out with his friends Nerd & Tanker. TALENT/SKILLS: Baby Snowman’s abilities are throwing snowballs in Nerds face and in his Dad’s face he and Tanker get up mischief all the time. APPEARANCE: White and fluffy with a red, woolly ,warm scarf with a lolly-pop in his mouth. ROLE IN THE PLAY: To stop his Dad Snowman destroying Tanker & Nerd so Baby Snowman helps Nerd &Tanker beat Snowman.//

Izzy wrote... //NAME: Blondia Remos de Pirate (Blondie) AGE: She is 18 SPECIES: Human PERSONALITY: Blondie has a fiery temper and can act before she thinks. She is a rebel and loves to stand out from the crowd. She does not mind being different. She enjoys telling people what to do and loves being the centre of attention. She loves to work out and eat healthy. She is ambitious and will give it her all to get her work done. But inside she is a good friend and a kind person and very brave. She will speak her mind no matter what will happen. TALENT/SKILLS: Blondie is good at fighting, swimming and is amazingly good at cooking. APPEARANCE: Blondie has beautiful blond hair. Her hair goes to her shoulders. She has white skin. Her hair is always under her bandana. She has blue eyes and has stunningly red lips. Her clothes are usually clean, but can be dirty (sometimes .) ROLE IN THE PLAY: Blondie is a mean and bossy pirate who learns a lesson about how you should act and how you shouldn’t, by two completely ordinary giants.//