What's Happening in Drama Class?

Lots! We have been very busy since returning from winter break. Students in Kindergarten and First Grade have begun a unit on puppetry. They had the opportunity to explore my puppet collection and learn how different types of puppets are controlled. Now they are busy making several different types of puppets. They began with simple finger puppets then will move on to stick puppets, hand puppets and even marionettes for the First Graders. They will use their final puppets to create puppet shows to perform for each other.

In Second Grade Drama, the students are hard at work writing plays. Each group was given a story to turn in to a play which will be performed for an audience of their peers upon completion. First, we worked together to make outlines of the important plot points from the story and now the students are working in small groups writing the script. Each group has been assigned one section of the story. Once the script is finished we will choose parts and begin rehearsing. The students will also have the opportunity to design and create sets and props for their plays.

In Third Grade we have been busy rehearsing for the Third Grade Performance: Folktales from Around the World. The show is next Thursday, February 3rd and the kids have been learning their lines, blocking, orchestra parts and dances. They have all put in a lot of work and the show is going to be great!

Fifth Grade students had their last drama class yesterday and it was really a celebration! Since winter break the students had the choice of either writing and performing original plays or making their own modern day film versions of Hamlet. Yesterday we watched the films and the plays and they were all incredible!

Fourth Grade will start to have Drama classes next week...so fourth grade parents keep checking here for information about what your kids are up to.

-Lisa Edwards