Sunday, January 25, 2009

In school we have been studying the body. Julie went to a Chinese restuant and picked up chicken feet and a cow thigh bone so we could get up close and personal with them.


Our Grecian Home School Play - video is at the bottom

When the kids did this play Katie’s eight year old son did not want to participate. He said that he would just be so embarrassed. His brother Ben volunteered to play Little Red. So, he used his high pitched voice to sound like a girl. This embarrassed Sam so much that in the middle of the play he yelled to his brother, “I’m tempted to kick you with that stupid Red Ridding Hood voice!” I have to tell you what he said because I was laughing so hard you can hardly hear it.

We did this performance several times. In this version Morgan and Sydney are part of the chorus.

Written by our friend Katie Wilson

Chorus:
A tale of timeless sorrow,
A story of regret,
A foolish girl who disobeyed
Was known as Little Red.

She wore a cape and hood
When she was off to see grandma.
Her mother warned her that the woods
Belonged to those with paws.

So dangerous to disobey
So dangerous to stray
So dangerous to leave the path
Where wolves await to say…

Wolf:
“Oh Little Red, O foolish girl
Your choice will bring you sorrow
Poor Riding Hood, a child once good
Will lose her life tomorrow.”

Chorus:
So dangerous to disobey
So dangerous to stray
So dangerous to stop to pick
The wildflowers of May.

Little Red Riding Hood:
I never disobeyed before,
I was a good girl, truly!
It isn’t fair that one small slip
Should end my life so cruelly!

How could I know what lay ahead
That day I stopped to linger?
How could I know the wolf I saw
Would want me for his dinner?


Wolf:
Hello, small one--fancy that--
To meet you this fine morning!
Pray, tell me where you’re off to now?
My own day seems so boring!




Little Red Riding Hood:
Why Good Sir Wolf, I must be off—
To Grandma’s house I go,
My mother warned me not to stop
And talk to strangers, so…

I’ll leave you now, no harm is done,
My mother shouldn’t worry,
I’ll go to Grandma’s house right now
And won’t even have to hurry!


Chorus:
So off she went, that thoughtless girl
Unheeding what she told him;
Not thinking that the cunning wolf
Could tear her limb from limb.

That unwise girl, to disobey,
That silly girl, to stray,
That thoughtless girl, to leave that path
That keeps the wolves at bay.


Grandma:
Come in! Come in! I hear you there!
Is that you, my Little Red Hood?


Wolf:
Oh no, ‘tis I, O Ancient One,
I’m here, straight from the wood.
Red Riding Hood told where you lived
I’ve come to kill and eat you…


Grandma:
That foolish girl, what has she done?
Now I must try to beat you!


Chorus:
But fragile bones and time-worn limbs
Can’t conquer fur and muscle.
The wolf ate Grandma, took her clothes,
Her glasses, and her bustle.

O foolish girl to leave the path
O foolish girl to stray
O foolish girl, your choices doomed
Your grandma, old and gray.


Little Red Riding Hood:
Knock, knock! I’m here, please let me in;
I’ve come to bring you cookies!
Dear Grandma, my, what eyes you have!


Wolf:
The better to “looky-looky!”


Little Red Riding Hood:
Your ears, too, Grandma, they seem quite large
Much bigger than they used to…


Wolf:
The better to hear you with, my dear,
Come closer, have some couscous!


Little Red Riding Hood:
Why thank you, Grandma, but you see,
Your teeth, they make me frightened!
They look so huge, so gi-normous
My sense of fear is heightened!


Wolf:
Aha, ‘tis right to be afraid!
I’ve fooled you, foolish girl,
I’ve eaten Grandma, I’ll eat you too,
So quick, your head will swirl!


Chorus:
Here ends Red Riding Hood, so too,
Here ends our tragic story,
Of mischief, murder, and what’s more—
The bad wolf gets the glory!

Poor little girl, O foolish girl,
You should have chosen better!
You’ve learned a lesson, that is true—
A wolf’s no Irish Setter!

O foolish girl to leave the path,
O foolish girl to stray!
Your story, shared, will help us all
To choose a better way.