Sorpresa! Planet Dartruda!
Posted by Molly on July 27, 2014
That's Weird Grandma TWG Weekly Update
This week’s “That’s Weird, Grandma” offers a moving movement adaptation of “Planet Dartruda”, and a surprising surprise in “La Sorpresa”.
At the Willa Cather Academy’s Super Seven Girls program, Jacari, Taniya and Nakiya were asked to share their ideas about a mysterious, far away planet. The resulting story moved Company Members Joe and Gwen to make a movement adaptation that was performed first at Willa Cather, then at Celebration of Authors, and now at “That’s Weird, Grandma”!
PLANET DARTRUDA by Jacari R, Taniya J, Nakiya B, Willa Cather Academy
We see toilet paper like a teddy bear. And we see little people bothering a chicken egg. We see little bumble bees stinging people. It is hot like the desert and sometimes cold- freezing and so hot at the same time. It changes quickly like our world when it used to be sunny. The sun on this planet is polka dot and orange. The chicken egg is cracking and the chicken inside might die unless a bee stings the little people. The End.
Many of the students at Columbia Explorer’s Academy speak and write in Spanish and English. Alejandra shared this true birthday party story in Spanish, which Company Member David adapted into a song, and will join the ranks of “Great Grandma Guitar Songs”:
LA SORPRESA by Alejandra F, Columbia Explorer’s Academy
Un dia, yo estaba en mi casa sentada asiendo mi tarea de la escuela. I ya mero era mi cumpleaños! Asi que le pregunte a mi mama que si me iva a dar una fiesta de cumpleaños. Y ella se puso seria y no me dijo nada. Mas al rato le pregunte a mi papa si me iva a dar un a fiesta y tampoco me respondio. Y por ulitmo le pregunte a mi hermana meno y me dijo que no podía decir nada porque mi papa y mi mama la ivan a reganar. Estonces me que de con la boca abierta. Luego era tiempo de ir a la escuela, y luego cuando regrese, me dijeron…¡Sorpresa!, y yo me emocione mucho y mis papas me dieron un abrazo. Fin.
For discounted tickets, say “Cold freezing and so hot at the same time” at the box office.
