Today was our Jazz musician presentations. It was spectacular! Parents were there to video tape and take pictures and none of the students had stage fright! We had a total of 8 presentations since our homeschooling friends are part of our music class.
The presentations highlighted the musicians music, important aspects of their life and unique qualities that you will remember. For example, Billie Holiday always had a flower in her hair when she performed and always finished her set with "Strange Fruit".
Our Wizard of Oz project is coming to a close. It started with Claire writing her own version of the story and turning it into a play. Since there were so many characters, we decided that if we filmed it, each of us could play multiple parts. We sketched out our scenes, came up with costumes, props and scenery (most of it natural!) and began filming. We spent a few different days in December filming scenes and talked about the efficiency of filming them out of order. Now that all of the scenes are filmed, BJ is working with his mom and Lucy to put the entire "movie" together. Watch the blog for a posting of the final product!