Third graders “Bebop with Aesop”

Iris Kuo
February 17, 2010
Filed under Lower School

The third grade students put on their annual play on Friday, Feb.5. This year’s was titled “Bebop with Aesop.” The students taught the audience morals by acting out some of Aesop’s fables.

The first moral was “Look Before You Leap.” In this part of the play, some frogs got stuck in a deep well while looking for a new home. Next came the woodland animals who acted out the familiar tale of the Tortoise and the Hare, where the tortoise’s victory in the race against the hare shows that “Slow and Steady Wins the Race.” After that, a fish and a shark performed “Don’t Cry Out Shark!” to show the importance of respecting the differences of others and that honesty is the best policy.

Lastly, the ants taught the grasshoppers that it is not good to procrastinate, especially when winter is coming, through the song “The Work Starts Now.” All four classes of third graders skillfully acted, sang, and danced as they illustrated how important the morals from the play are to them.