The first months of the school year have been magical. Students at Park have experienced dramatizations including; creating a pirate adventure and a circus, adaptating the story Goodnight Gorilla, creating original character scenes, improvising the World Series, adaptating the stories Turkey Trouble and Snowmen At Night. Enrichment Fine Arts, a collaboration between Art and Drama, gave students the opportunity to create an adaptation of the story The Very Hungry Caterpillar including costume pieces and props. Students used the following Drama skills; wearing costume pieces, using props, pantomime, improvisation. Transition students worked with SeeSaw Theatre out of Northwestern University. Once a week SeeSaw actors visited Park School and explored a process drama with the students. It was great fun!
Students at Orrington have been busy examining social issues through the lens of two picture books, King Bidgood's In The Bathtub and Fly Away Home. We used narrative pantomime and improvisation to dig deep into the content of these books. Intermediate students also created original scenes and multiple image tableaus based on Fly Away Home. Primary classes also participated in a process drama which revolved around solving the problem of the discovery of a strange object in Evanston. They were so imaginitive when creating submarines for their under water exploration! Third grade tackled the wonderful story Liza Lou and the Yeller Belly Swamp by Mercer Mayer. They developed scenes and began to focus on audience expectations and peer evaluation. Fourth and fifth grades created original scenes which focused on character development and answering the 4 essential questions of Who? What? Where? Why? Drama Club students have been working hard rehearsing their interpretation of the story Snowmen At Night and will share this work during the Winter Sing Performance.
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