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2009 Elementary School Assembly Programs.

As Educators, we all recognize that nothing in the curriculum is more important to a Child's Early Education than those experiences, which reinforce the learning of literacy.  Not just reading, but writing, thinking, talking, listening, and creating. All of these skills and concepts are crucial to the educational, psychological, and social well being of the young student. Efforts to welcome, understand, and affirm all students--and to treat their cultural and linguistic backgrounds as equally valid and important--should be reflected in every facet of the school environment. It is with this in mind and our passion to promote literacy, that we proudly offer our 2006/7 Assembly Programs to Florida Elementary Schools..

Books Alive Ideal for Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades

 Imaginative and silly, this 45-minute assembly program takes special care to build the confidence of this “learning to read” age group. With humorous sketches and drama, the Battersby Duo show kids that good readers make better writers, reading has rhythm, and writing is fun, fun, fun. Mr. Tim and Mrs. Laura paint with words to tickle the children’s imaginations. Age appropriate songs that everyone can sing along to effortlessly keep kids engaged and entertained. Packed with personality, the Battersby Duo helps kids focus. “Never be afraid of a big word”, and “You can do it”, are themes that make kids want to get on the reading train. Follow up CD’s and free video downloads give teachers and students great tools to take back to the classroom. All aboard the Reading Train

Shake Rattle and Read Brilliant for 3rd 4th and 5th grades

Shake Rattle and Read is designed to improve a broad range of competencies related to literacy, such as basic language skills (reading, writing, speaking and listening. A Battersby Duo concert helps Children develop spatial, linguistic, musical, kinesthetic, and mathematic intelligences.

Shake Rattle and Read is a 45-minute Elementary School program designed for 3rd 4th and 5th grade students.  A variety of music, poetry, and interactive theatrics provide a platform on which The Battersby Duo demonstrates the power of the written word. Buckle your seat belts as they take their audience on a journey that is destined to challenge and inspire. By playing with language, The Battersby Duo encourages Students to exercise their minds with fast paced participation. Pseudonyms, and poems, palindromes, and synonyms are the backdrop for this bolt of academic lightning that streaks to Theatres and Elementary Schools throughout the USA. "This concert is one of the most motivational performances I have seen in 32 years of teaching. My 5th graders were so excited after The Battersby Duo visited our school. This program is truly a cozy companion to FCAT."

 The Battersby Duo’s background in music, literature and sociology combine to create a fun and educational program for elementary age students. Shake Rattle and Read unequivocally proves the more you read, the more you succeed.

There are 180 days in the School year. The Battersby Duo accepts requests from 150 Elementary Schools in Florida each season, typically performing 2 programs per school. They have been fingerprinted and accepted under The Jessica Lunsford Act in most Florida Counties. All fees are inclusive and no deposits are required. The Battersby Duo does not add travel or accommodation charges.

 

A Tail of Too Sillies. A Pre-School Extravaganza. Perfect for the littlest of us

"Goofy wacky and whimsical are all adjectives to describe the musical antics of, The Battersby Duo.” A Tail of Two Sillies is a wonderfully comical entry into the world of performing arts for the pre-school set. Packed with silly songs and heart warming theatrics, "A Tail of Two Sillies" has captivated young audiences from The Kennedy Center in Washington DC to The Performing Arts Center in Tampa Florida for the past two decades. The show is a 45-minute musical extravaganza that is guaranteed to keep Children on the edge of their seats. A mixture of high-energy "bee" bop, dollops of doo-wop and buckets of laughter are the backdrop for this incredible concert for the whole family. Beneath the facade of silliness, the Duo offers honest non-threatening glimpses in to a Childs’ world of understanding and imagination. “A must see for the under 6 set.” Washington Post

 

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The Bat Duo Biography

The Battersby Duo is a Musical Comedy Team for Children and Families. They have been performing together for 24 Years. They have won an Emmy, and 3 Parents Choice Awards. They have appeared at The White House 6 times performing for the President and the First Lady, and have also been appeared on the Today Show on NBC. Last year they performed to more than 2 million Children around the USA. Senator Bob Graham calls The Battersby Duo "A National Treasure." The Washington Post calls their concerts truly inspirational. The American Library Association calls them, “A banquet of silliness, designed to please the most refined of juvenile palates.”

Our commitment to the Education of Young Children in America is the reason we are The Battersby Duo. Our message is simple; be happy, love life, and love education. Our "tongue in cheek" style has earned us a reputation that has far exceeded our wildest expectations. Our simple songs encourage and nurture young minds; our humor has tickled the odd funny bone. Our performances have been described as a “cozy companion to FCAT that reinforces everything Educators are teaching their Students. Very inspirational.”

The Battersby Duo has performed throughout the USA and Europe. Some of the venues include: · The Kennedy Center · The Tampa Bay Performing Arts Center · The White House · The Filene Center at Wolf Trap’s Performing Arts Complex · The Times Union Center · The Today Show on NBC · Sesame Street PEP · The Marcus Center in Milwaukee Wisconsin · The Alden Theatre in McLean Virginia · The Leavitt Pavilion in Westport Connecticut · The Spoleto Festival in Charleston SC · First Night Annapolis Maryland · The Fairfax Fair · The Minnesota State Fair ·

Vocabulary and Intelligences Used in every Battersby performance

Linguistic intelligence: The capacity to use words effectively, orally or written.
 Logical-Mathematical Intelligence: The capacity to use numbers effectively and to reason well.
Spatial Intelligence: The ability to perceive the visual-spatial world accurately and to perform transformations upon those perceptions.
Kinesthetic Intelligence: Expertise in using one’s body to express ideas and feelings.
 Musical Intelligence: The capacities to perceive, discriminate, transform, and express musical forms.

Metaphor: A metaphor is, commonly, a figure of speech used to paint one concept with the attributes normally associated with another

Synonyms are different words with similar or identical meanings and are interchangeable

Antonyms: are word pairs that are opposite in meaning, such as hot and cold, fat and thin, and up and down. Words may have different antonyms, depending on the meaning. Both long and tall are antonyms of short

Noun: The word "noun" derives from the Latin nomen meaning "name", and a traditional definition of nouns is that they are all and only those expressions that refer to a person, place, thing, event, substance, quality, or idea.

Palindrome: is a word, phrase, number or other sequence of units (such as a strand of DNA) that has the property of reading the same in either direction (the adjustment of punctuation and spaces between words is generally permitted). The word "palindrome" comes from the Greek palin  "back" and dromos "way, direction". Composing literature in palindromes is an example of constrained writing

Simile: is a figure of speech in which the subject is compared to another subject. Frequently, similes are marked by use of the words like or as, "The snow was like a blanket". However, "The snow blanketed the earth" is also a simile and not a metaphor because the verb blanketed is a shortened form of the phrase covered like a blanket. A few other examples are "The deer ran like the wind", "The raindrops sounded as popcorn kernels popping", and "the lullaby was like the hush of the winter."

Pun: is a figure of speech, which consists of a deliberate confusion of similar words or phrases for rhetorical effect, whether humorous or serious. A pun can rely on the assumed equivalency of multiple similar horse words (homonymy), of different shades of meaning of one word (polysemy), or of a literal meaning with a metaphor. Bad puns are often considered to be cheesy.                                                

Pseudonym: is a fictitious name used by an individual as an alternative to his or her legal name. A pseudonym is distinct from an allonym, which is the name of another actual person assumed by one person, usually historical, in authorship of a work of art; e.g., when ghostwriting a book or play, or in parody, or when using a front such as by screenwriters blacklisted in Hollywood in the '50s, '60s, and '70s. To be pseudonymous means that the person is using a pseudonym

Adjective: is a part of speech which modifies a noun, usually describing it or making its meaning more specific. However, adjectives are not a universally recognized word class; in other words, some languages do not have any adjectives. The Chinese languages, for example, have no adjectives; all the words that are translated into English as adjectives are, in fact, stative verbs.

Verb: is a part of speech that usually denotes action ("bring", "read"), occurrence ("decompose", "glitter"), or a state of being ("exist", "stand"). Depending on the language, a verb may vary in form according to many factors, possibly including its tense, aspect, mood and voice. It may also agree with the person, gender, and/or number of some of its arguments (subject, object, etc.)   

 
There are 180 days in the School year. The Battersby Duo accepts requests from 150 Elementary Schools in Florida each season, typically performing 2 programs per school. They have been fingerprinted and accepted under The Jessica Lunsford Act in most Florida Counties. All fees are inclusive and no deposits are required. The Battersby Duo does not add travel or accommodation charges.

Booking and Contact Information

6199 Faber Drive. Brooksville Fl. 34602.

Tel: 352.799.3110 or 352.870.3006 (cell)

Fax: 352.754.5073

E-Mail: batduo@bellsouth.net Web: www.battersbyduo.com