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Japanese Kabuki dance called "sanbaso". Painted with ink and pigments on silk. Signed Chikugai and sealed. Sanbaso is a traditional Japanese performing art and means the third performance. Sanbaso is said to bring about a good harvest, and it remains in various forms throughout Japan, including in Kabuki and puppet theater as a dance to pray for a good harvest, and as a celebratory dance in folk entertainment. Miyoshi Chikugai (1878-1939) was a Japanese painter. In 1897, he graduated from the design department of Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts. From 1899 to the following year, he served as an assistant at the Kyoto City School of Arts and Crafts. In 1906, he returned to the school's design department and became an assistant teacher the following year. In 1920, he was promoted to teacher at the same school, and also served as a contract teacher at Kyoto City Painting College. Some light marks and insignificant light crease are present on the painting itself, otherwise the piece is in very good condition with the age. Some light marks are present on the scroll mounting, otherwise the scroll mounting is in very good condition with the age. It is accompanied by an original paulownia wood storage box with the artist’s signature. Painting: W7 7/8” x H40 1/8” (W20cm x H102cm) Scroll: W11 5/8” x H72 1/2” (W29.5cm x H184cm)
Happy November! Our November has rang in with a bang- a cold and a double ear infection. Whomp whomp. I am hoping we have gotten all the nasty sickness out of the way so that we can enjoy the holiday season. I LOVE this time of year!!! Here at the Primary Peach we are celebrating the month of November with tissues and cough syrup a cornucopia of teacher tricks! Each day, a different author will share a tip to make YOUR life easier! Yahoo! My tip for you is..... I love readers theater. I used it often in my classroom. It enhanced fluency and confidence in my struggling readers. It made complex text easier to access due to the repeated readings. AND it is fun! What is not to love!? I have actually written about it a pretty good bit in my own blog here and here. So here is my tip for you: You know how your schedule can be all wacky between now and Winter Break? There are tons of special events, assemblies, and celebrations. I loved to use reader's theater during the "odd" weeks when either we would be off a few days ( like for Thanksgiving break) OR the learning was so interrupted from the series of special events (which was pretty much ALL of December!). Readers theater is a GREAT way to still teach and have meaningful lessons, but can be done in small bits at odd times. I liked to choose *at least* two scripts and divide my class in half. I tried to find scripts with at least 10-12 parts in it. This was for two reasons: first, the group performing would always have an audience (the other half of the class) and secondly, finding scripts with 20 some-odd parts is VERY hard! Looking for some FREE Thanksgiving and Fall Reader's Theaters? Check these out below! Turk and Runt Turkey Trotten The Meal Must Go On (Thanksgiving) ABC's of the First Thanksgiving Thanksgiving at the Tappletons A Turkey Takes a Stand A Turkey for Thanksgiving Looking for some FREE Christmas and Winter Reader's Theaters? Check these out below! Arthur's Christmas A Christmas Carol No Santa Our Snowman Redheaded Robbie's Christmas Story Snowflake Bentley Snowballs The Gingerbread Boy The Polar Express Twas the Night Before Christmas Are you looking for some more FREE scripts? Check out these sites- they have tons! The Best Class Timeless Teacher Stuff There are lots of ways to take this tip! Let's talk about the actual teacher prep. I liked to have all the scripts run off ahead of time, ready to go. I highlighted ONE character's name on the top of the script. I did this so when I choose Suzy to be the part of the Turkey, the Turkey was already highlighted. I DID NOT highlight all the scripts parts for the Turkey throughout the readers theater- more about that in a bit. I preferred to use reader's theaters that are actual children's books. I did this because before ever introducing the reader's theater script, I could read aloud the book and model oral fluency. I also used this time to think aloud and go over vocabulary. It was a total win-win! After reading aloud the book, you may be tempted to go ahead and assign parts. WAIT! This is an awesome time to get students even more familiar with the text and practice their fluency. Break the class in to small groups of about four. Have the small groups read the script in a circular manner. Instead of assigning parts, students will read the next line when it is their turn. Then, at the end of this time you can assign parts. You can do this randomly or assign by choice. I did it both ways with success. AFTER all this, then I gave kids the highlighters and had them highlight their parts! Practice the scripts with an "audience," which can simply be the other half of the class. I also have the groups practicing AT THE SAME TIME! I know it sounds crazy, but they usually don't mess around. They are so motivated, because it is fun! We do somewhat rearrange the chairs, so that there are two long lines of chairs (one of each group of reader's theater). This makes it easier for me to keep my eye on them, just in case ;). One of the best things about reader's theater is that you can make it a super big deal...or just an itty-bitty deal! It ALL works! Your students could perform for a younger grade level or class. My kids always LOVED this. Some years we also did a Family Feast. We invited families to attend the reader's theater performance. Each family bought a traditional dish from their home to share with the class. It could be something like rolls or cranberry sauce, or even a dish from their native country. We always had a fabulous response! You can read more about that here AND get an editable copy of the letter we sent home! I hope this gives you some ideas to "fill in the blank"spaces of time during the holidays! Like this tip? make sure to come back tomorrow for a NEW tip from a different author ALL month! For even more ideas from The Primary Peach, be sure to follow us on Instagram, Pinterest, and Facebook to catch all the latest news and updates!
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Reader's Theater is an AMAZING tool to utilize with students at so many levels. My daughter's teacher, Mrs. Bell from A Place Called Kindergarten seems to be a guru of primary reader's theater. She does Theater Thursday with her kindergartners using resources that she has created based on various books, and my daughter couldn't love it more. Would you believe that older kiddos LOVE it just as much? A few years ago when we began utilizing Reading Street, I was lucky enough to land the Reader's Theater Anthology. I don't know about the other grade levels, but 6th grade has some great scripts. The idea is that each unit has it's own script, so they range from historical fiction, fantasy, realistic fiction, poetry, etc. At first, I had no idea how to implement it into my week with all of the other instructional components of my day, but I knew fluency was something that we needed to enhance. Our DIBELs scores were not where they needed to be, and in addition to more read to someone time, I needed to make fluency work fun, so on an inconsistent basis, we tackled some if the different scripts. While it helps to have a group that is willing to perform, what I found was that the enthusiasm of the students when performing is contagious. Students that might be more reserved as you tackle the first few scripts with your crew, will become more comfortable and engaged the more you incorporate them into your instruction. While they may have been reluctant, it will soon pass and students will be crossing fingers for the characters with the most lines. By having this additional fluency practice, I began to see that students were much more animated readers. No longer were they just racing the clock and reading words as quickly as possible during 6-minute solutions or with weekly progress monitoring, instead they were much more expressive. I have been truly impressed with how beneficial reader's theater has been for my BIG kiddos. I soon realized that sharing the same scripts year after year was BORING for me, so I began turning some of the happenings at school into scripts of my own. I also found that I could include other components that I knew my students needed additional work on...extended response questions, context clue word work, and prompt writing. My students LOVE these even more, and anytime I have a sub, I leave a script and fun pack for my students to perform and the day is usually issue-free. If you have an anthology you love, but are looking for some additional high-interest scripts and fun packs that go along with the different seasons, here are a few of my favorites: For FALL and Halloween For EVERYDAY fun! To enhance a study on FABLES More EVERYDAY fun! To teach about our American History I have included a FREEBIE! With St. Nicholas Night arriving in a few days, this is the perfect reader's theater to share with your students. It is only 6-characters, so you can have multiple groups working and performing. Click here to snag it up, and be sure to let me know what you think with some feedback... I would love to hear about some of the awesome reader's theater resources you have utilized!
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En octubre de 2012 se presentó en el museo de Arte Moderno de Moscú una exposición con título “El teatro de Vera Mukhina: capítulo desconocido en la carrera de una escultura” (“The Theater of Vera …
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