I’m still not keeping bees but Will has given my ladybeekeeper blog a re-vamp. He made several changes that should allow pictures to load faster, and hopefully the site will have less downtime. Most importantly though it is accessible via https. Hopefully you won’t notice any differences on your end, but if you do please let me know (for better or worse)!
Since I’m just testing out the new wordpress version I’ll keep this one short. I want to show you some of the silly puppets I made and the puppet show I put together (thanks Amy for recording it). I really deliberated with what to do for the puppet show. Since Native Americans are such wonderful stewards of the Earth from which we can learn so much, I wanted to share an Earth related tale from one of America’s native peoples. I ended up taking out a a storybook from the library called Keepers of the Earth which was a collection of many different Earth related stories from different Nations and some ways you could tie these stories to a science curriculum. Julius and I read thru the entire book and really enjoyed the stories and teachings. His favorite was a tale from the Abenaki peoples called “Gluscabi and the Wind Eagle”. Gluscabi is a bit of a trickster and his antics cracked Julius up. The tale contains just three characters; Gluscabi, Grandmother Woodchuck, and Wuchowsen the Wind Eagle. I thought it would be perfect for a puppet show so I made some puppets and performed it (I will be honest, there was a lot more stressing out than this including worrying about the socks I was using and searching extensively for how to sing the canoe song in the story, which was thankfully documented by a folk singer). The kids seemed to like it and I really hope that I did the story some small measure of justice even though I’m sure it cannot compare to any version told by the Abenaki. If you want to see my humble interpretation Amy recorded it! Thanks Amy!
I also thought you’d like to see the close up of Gluscabi (a silly looking sock fellow, with removable vest and hair held on by velcro), Grandmother Woodchuck (who I decided to paint brown since I only had white socks) and Wuchowsen my interpretation of a wind Eagle.
