The class met again at 3:30PM, anxious for their turn to host the show. The hosts and announcers had dressed in black and white. Every one else was looking fabulous in their indian costumes. Publicity & Campaigning team reached out to the Players and confirmed that they are all reporting to the green room by 4:15PM. When the teams reported, they briefed the three teams about the rules of the game show and answered their questions.
At about 5:15PM we left the green room and quietly assembled back-stage. The Stage Setup and Props team arranged the stage for the game show and the emcees called out the fifth grade team to present the game show around 5:30PM.
The Announcers took over the mike and explained what the game was all about to the audience, introduced the playing teams and the presentation team for the first round. The Team Explosive Samosas got their first question: Husband of Uma. The props team maneuvered the game board with express speed and accuracy. No one in the audience saw them in action, but those of us in the back-stage were amazed with their focus and speed. Excitement slowly mounted as the various teams started competing with each other. At the end of Round #1, all the questions on the names of Shiva had been completed.
For Round #2, the music to time the players solving the word clue, finally kicked in to action, adding a wonderful audio effect. This was purely a fifth-grade students' idea that evolved with suggestions of popular music tunes, a fifth grader played and recorded a version of the Pink Panther music with custom effects for the last 5 seconds. None of the teams were able to solve the word puzzles in the category Vishnu.
The announcers kept the audience engaged while presentation teams switched for the third round. Category was Names of Devis. At the end of the three rounds, one team had not scored any points. Hence, only the other two teams moved on to the FIRE round.
The topic for FIRE round was daanam. (giving, generosity, charity). The teams waged the points they had earned. But unfortunately both the teams did not sove the clue to the answer "Sage dadhici".
After all the rounds, Team Explosive Samosas came first with 100 points, Team Supreme S.I.V.A came second with 50 points.
Then it was time for Prize distribution. The publicity & campaigning team gave away fabulous prizes with their hard-earned money - AMC Gold experience movie tickets for two with a voucher for pop-corn to the winning team , ITunes gift cards for $20 each to the runners-up. The third team, Team SEVAKS, got a consolation prize for participation, ITunes gift cards for $10 each.
The fifth grade team lined up on stage and the audience gave them a big round of applause for hosting a fabulous game show, indeed.
The teachers are extremely happy and pleased with the fifth grade kids' team work, co-operation and attention to details. Special thanks to the two girls who agreed to substitute for the kids who could not make it to the game-show due to health issues. That is the kind of team-work all these kids demonstrated through out this game-show.
Note to Parents: If any of you recorded the game-show, please share with the group.
CONGRATULATIONS,
Fifth Grade Teachers: Anjana Aunty, Prasad Uncle, Sangita Aunty & Kasturi Uncle
