Carly's Arts Bridge Blog

For my sixth visit, I started the first lesson of my 3 day lesson arc on puppets!!  To introduce the kids to puppets, I made my own puppet named Miss Veronica Silverman. I did a somewhat of teacher-in-role activity where I talked to the kids as Miss Veronica and gave them the opportunity to ask her any questions they want about her life. We then talked about Characters and all of the important aspects that make up a character - their name, their personality, their name, what they look like, how they talk, etc. I told them that they would be making their very own characters through sock puppets that day and told them to focus on creating their characters with all of those specific elements. We then spent the rest of class making puppets! For the next two lessons I will teach them about how to use a puppet and have them put into partners to practice a holiday song using their sock puppets. The final lesson will be a holiday puppet show where everyone will have a cha

For my fifth visit I did a lesson on imagination and poetry using the poem "Bear in There" by Shel Silverstein. Here is the lesson plan I used. Objective:  Students will be able to demonstrate an ability to use their imaginations by using bodies and voices to portray a  polar   bear .  Warm-up: Ask students to pretend to be a  polar   bear Instructions: Find your own space in the room (again, we may or may not need to practice what this means), giving yourself elbow room and not moving out of your parameter. Practice moving about in your own space, but staying in it.  How do you walk, run, climb, etc.? Let’s start with a frozen image of your  polar   bear —and by the count of 10 it will come to life. While counting to 10, ask the following questions. What does your  polar   bear  look like? How big are you as a  polar   bear ? How different are you from yourself as a  polar   bear ? How fast or slow do you move as a  polar   bear ? We are going to come b

For my fourth visit, I did a lesson on pantomiming and personifying a character using the children's book Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus.  Here is the lesson plan I used. Objective : Students will be able to use body, face, gestures and movement to recreate the story in  Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus  by pantomiming the role of pigeon and giving pigeon advice from their own perspective. Warm-up: Sitting on the reading rug, ask students to practice using their faces to express a variety of emotions: ·         Happy ·         Sad ·         Scared ·         Worried Ask students to show a variety of faces for each emotion, and then ask when they might feel some of those emotions? Ask them to pay attention to when any of these emotions, or other emotions, appear in the book we are about to read together. Read  Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus , by Mo Willems.   After finishing the book, ask students for observations, “What were some of the emotions