We began Drama this week
with introductions because this was my first day teaching. As the children ate
their snacks I read Max Lucado's Just the Way You Are and we discussed
what it meant to give our King the gift of our hearts. I was very impressed
with how attentive everyone was and their level of engagement and
consideration of what we were reading.
We also used Saton Freymann and Joost Elffers's, How are
you Peeling? Foods with Moods, to talk about how facial expressions
& body language can be used to convey a story as the children made up
situations to explain what was happening in some of the photographs from the
book.Assignment:
I would like to begin work on a Christmas presentation with
the kids next week incorporating some drama and a musical score, If
you could have the kids bring in a blank CD with their names written on it, I
can burn the songs we are learning for them. I also asked them to bring in a
picture (maybe ripped out of a magazine or copied from a book) where people
were showing emotions. We will use them as a starting point to make up stories
during class and segue to the story of the birth of Jesus....
