Ansley's Play

This Friday, Ansley performed in a play, dance, song, and showed off her art from a week-long day-camp called Jumpstart, funded by the City of Plano. Here she is after the performance, smiling because she did so wonderfully! It was so fun to get to go see her, and to cheer her on. :)

The play was about a Princess Splishy-Splashy...you guessed it, the kids made up their own play! They were helped out by a drama leader, and they put together all kinds of fun and crazy ideas. The play had not only a princess, but a king, a queen, an alien, and a witch! :) The kids had rehearsed in their separate groups, and then performed together Friday night. Since there were many children, each part had many voices...so when Ansley spoke the lines of the Queen, several other voices joined with her - but I think they all had a blast! :)

Here is Ansley with her group (the Yellow group) during the middle of the dance portion of their performance...as you can see, I obviously didn't get a part where they're moving...sorry. Plus, the picture uploader from Blogger posted my pictures in an odd order, so instead of going from the play to the choir songs to the dance, it posted in scrambled order instead.

Here is the entire group of children that performed Friday evening singing the songs they practiced for the week. There was a lot of fun songs, and a LOT of smiling faces!!! :)

Here is the choir again, but with a close-up so you can see better where Ansley is. She is in the upper-left hand corner, singing out loud and proud! :) Way to go, Ansley!!!

Here she is in the play. The adult in the background was the narrator, who helped feed the lines, and generally was the storyteller while the kids acted out the scenes. What a great time! :) The story was about a princess who wanted to go and play splishy-splashy in the woods, but since the forest was dangerous the king and queen made her wear a charm to keep bad things from happening to her. However, there was an alien in the woods that tricked her and then turned her into a frog! When the king and queen came to save the princess, the alien turned them into frogs too! :) Finally, the witch came out to the woods after a nap, turned the alien into a handsome prince, and decided they would get married...the wedding menu? Frog legs, of course! :)

Since the pictures posted backwards, this was Ansley before the play started. Everyone was sitting around in their places waiting for the time when the evening program began. Great job Ansley! And thank you, Michael and Heather, for inviting me!