Carly's Arts Bridge Blog

This week in school, the kids were learning about different types of weather and the four seasons. So I planned my drama lesson plan around integrating this subject material. First I started off by asking them what they know about the different types of weather. What types of weather happen during Fall? Winter? Spring? Summer? I also asked them what their favorite activities were in each of the four seasons. After talking about this for a little while, we started off by doing a little role play of waking up on a snowy morning. I had all of the kids pretend they were asleep and when the alarm went off, they all had to run to the window and check what the weather was. Since the weather (in the pretend activity) was snowy, I asked them what type of clothes we need to wear in the snow. We went through the actions of putting on our coats, mittens, boots, and scarves and then, once we were all bundled up, we were ready to “go outside”. We then orchestrated an imaginary snowball f...

I wanted to use this first lesson to warm the children up to the idea of imagination and pretending through drama. So I decided to start my teaching off with an interactive reading activity and some drama games. First I started out by introducing myself to the kids and having them all gather and sit down on the carpet so I could read the book W here the Wild Things Are to them .  I incorporated a lot of voice and interactive parts to this book. There are several parts that talk about the Wild Thing's "terrible teeth" or "terrible claws", and I would ask the students to show me their most terrible teeth and most terrible claws and to roar their terrible roars so that the kids can feel that they are a part of the story. The kids REALLY embraced their wild sides and I got some pretty ferocious roars out of them. After the book we then transitioned into our first drama game: The name of the game is Yes, Lets! I started this game by having the children...