What an exciting start to the school year! I am thrilled to be back as the Drama teacher at both Orrington and Park schools. We have been incredibly busy over these past seven weeks. Primary students at Orrington have been working with a partner to create adventures with puppets. This has been a lot of fun for everyone! They have practiced staying in personal space and explored slow motion movement, pantomime, and tableau.
Intermediate classes have developed scenes incorporating improvisation and pantomime. This required small group ensemble work - having the willingness to accept others ideas, saying "Yes...and!" rather than "No...but". Students are learning to provide verbal feedback to their peers focusing on what they see, hear, notice, wonder - not just on what was funny or what they liked. They must identify specific dramatic skills and how they were used. Drama Club is meeting on Wednesday mornings before school. This special group will have the opportunity to perform during the Winter Sing in December and at the MLK Celebration in January. For the Winter Sing, we will create a dramatic adaptation of the picture book Snowmen At Night by Caralyn Buehner. Drama Club students will rehearse and perform poems for the MLK Celebration. I hope families can attend these events! Park School students have taken magic carpet rides during Drama. These trips transport us to different places, imaginary and realistic. We have landed on a Pirate ship, joined the crew, and completed tests of bravery! Classes visited a city in the clouds and created what it would be like to go there. We also created characters using fabric with different textures, colors and designs as our costumes. Using our character ideas, we developed scenes. We will continue to use the magic carpet to travel to new places. SeeSaw Theatre of Northwestern University will visit Park school every Monday afternoon to interact with students. The first interaction will be sensory based and students will have the opportunity to work closely with actors from the theatre group. It should be a wonderful experience!
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