December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 20, 2010
The Winner for the Twisted Tales fractured fairytale writing contest was a team from Ms. Dagneault’s 5th grade class. The story is based on the original tale of “Cinderella.” The winner was chosen by the fifth grade students. It was also voted “Best Twisted Tale Overall.” Congratulations to Jacob, Lance, Joshua, Brenden & Destiny! Rapperella [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 20, 2010
The Winner for the Twisted Tales fractured fairytale writing contest was a team from Ms. Naugle’s 4th grade class. The story is based on the original tale of “Little Red Riding Hood.” The winner was chosen by the fourth grade students. Little Red Riding By Evelyn, Angelique, Connor, Chad, Lajosh & Timmy Ms. Naugle – [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 20, 2010
The Winner for the Twisted Tales fractured fairytale writing contest was a team from Ms. Fury’s 3rd grade class. The story is based on the original tale of “The Three Billy Goats Gruff.” The winner was chosen by the third grade students. Who Dats Crossing! (based on “The Three Billy Goats Gruff”) By Joshua, Brianna, [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 20, 2010
Friends: Friday, December 17, 2010 was my tenth and last day of my Twisted Tales residency at Bissonet Plaza Elementary. It was a fabulous day and I had so much fun with the kids. My ten year old daughter, Kid Chef Eliana, came with me and we had a blast. On this day my third [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 17, 2010
Friends: I am up soooo late so this blog post will be rather short. Today was the 9th day of my Twisted Tales residency at Bissonet Plaza Elementary in Metairie, Louisiana. Today, I saw all the students during their P.E. period. The winners from each class performed their fractured fairytales: “The Gummi Frog and Princess [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 15, 2010
Friends: Today was Day 8 of my Twisted Tales residency at Bissonet Plaza Elementary in Metairie, Louisiana. The school librarian, Ellen Miller, brings me in each year on a grant administered through the Arts Council of Louisiana as part of the Decentralized Arts Funding through Louisiana Culture, Recreation and Tourism. My day began in Ms. [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 15, 2010
Friends: Today was the 7th day of my “Twisted Tales: Spinning Stories into Fractured Funnies” residency at Bissonet Plaza Elementary in Metairie, Louisiana. I started the day signing books in the Teacher’s Lounge for all the students who ordered books. My first class was Ms. Anchissi’s kindergarten class. We had a lot of fun with [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 13, 2010
Friends: Today was the sixth day of my ten-day Twisted Tales residency at Bissonet Plaza Elementary in Metairie, Louisiana. My day began in Ms. Naugle’s 4th grade class. The students worked hard on writing their fractured fairytales. “Little Red Riding Hood” was the assigned original tale and it was fractured many ways by different groups [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 13, 2010
Friends: It was such a busy weekend of book signings! On Saturday, I had two book signings: one in uptown New Orleans at a children’s boutique called Little Laughter. It is located next to Slice Pizza and Whole Foods Market on Magazine Street. I signed books with the incomparable Johnette Downing, award-winning children’s musician and [...]
December 2010
by Dianne de Las Casas on December 13, 2010
Friends: On Friday night, Kid Chef Eliana and I had a book signing at Barnes & Noble Citiplace in Baton Rouge. Kid Chef Eliana was so adorable in her chef uniform and sold quite a few books! After a vote by the audience, I performed The Gigantic Sweet Potato. It was a ton of fun! [...]
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