by Dancing Wombat | Nov 4, 2015 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Learning Through Performance
What do you know – another week, another new student in my Junior class! This is really exercising my creativity as I work out how to rehearse for the concert, but also teach to the new students. Luckily, the other newbies have settled into their own patterns....
by Dancing Wombat | Oct 30, 2015 | Blog, Learning Through Performance
Today was the big day for my senior class who’ been rehearsing the Explorers play. NO scripts! Except my own, of course. And one for my assistant. The students clustered around me as we walked from the playground to the hall. “We’re not using our...
by Dancing Wombat | Oct 19, 2015 | Blog, Learning Through Performance
It’s an unseasonably warm October day in Melbourne. The sky is a glorious, cloudless blue, the crab apples are in exuberant blossom and I’m on a massive high after my lessons today. I feel like a springtime bee, drunk on nectar and blissfully content. This...
by Dancing Wombat | Aug 24, 2015 | Blog, Learning Through Performance
Now I’ve got your attention, let me reassure you this is not a salacious attempt to hook you into reading something quite mundane. ‘Grandma’s undies’ is a brilliant game that the littlest Dancing Wombat was bursting to share with me as he...
by Dancing Wombat | Aug 2, 2015 | Blog, Coping Strategies, Learning Through Performance
Last week, I introduced the end-of year play to my Senior Class, students roughly between Grades 4 and 6. This moment had been highly anticipated by all, and I was quite pleased with what I’d written. I had anticipated the words, phrases and characters that I...
by Dancing Wombat | May 2, 2014 | Blog, Learning Through Performance
Yes, it’s that time of year again and no, I’m not talking about tax returns! It’s Christmas concert planning! It’s nutty how anything Christmas related seems to start earlier and earlier, isn’t it?! So, here we are. This year my class is...
