Kinder students learned about CHARACTER!

We also got to play with peeper puppets (Click here to buy your own!) & ribbon wands- while we acted out "The Squiggle"

1st Graders learned about Characters. We also got to make some original masks to keep! If your family would like to check these out at home- Click this link~!

2nd graders worked hard on their choreography for the Spring Concert. Students helped come up with their own dance moves for "The Selfish Giant!" Then we created our own paper bag puppets- and did a full character analysis on them!

3rd Graders learned about persuasive language and advertising! We came up with 30 second original commercials and performed them for the class. 

4th Graders have been working on OBJECTIVES and TACTICS. We pretended to take a math test- but each math test had a secret "Objective"- different from the kid next to them. We had a blast! Then, They wrote original monologues from the perspective of an OBJECT, and gave it an objective...and came up with 3 tactics to meet the objective. We are performing them for our class!

5th graders studied MELODRAMA- and performed their own Melodrama for the camera. We learned all about the hero, heroine, villian, and accomplice- and put our over the top acting to the test! We're excited to start working on the 5th Grade Legacy Video next!

Kinder students built their own body bubbles in a dramatic story, learned how not to be "Interrupting Chicken" and dove deep into acting out a story's PLOT. Stories have a beginning (like Chicken Little), a middle that we can change (like Little Red Riding Hood), and and ending that sometimes has a plot twist (like Neverwoof). 

1st graders finished their study of plot by acting out "The Long Winter" and wondering how to change the ending of a book like "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus". We added sounds to stories and played the machine game. Between shortened snow days we played with costumes and marionettes. 

2nd graders finished up Plot and launched into learning about Characters. We created tableaus (frozen silent pictures) that show character's relationship (how they know each other). We used masks to create conflict between animal characters. We created a sequel to continue the plot of "Sylvester and the Magic Pebble". 

3rd graders created original fables using the same moral they studied about in class (Amos & Boris). Students invented the beginning to a mysterious fairytale they acted out. We read "Alexander and the Terrible Horrible No Good Very Bad Day" and chose one of the main characters problem to COMPLICATE 3 times. We also worked on choreography to perform at the Winter Concert. We wrapped up the quarter doing a Coding Choreography project in the gym with Mr. Laporte. 

4th graders acted out the stories "Elephant Pit" and "Li & The Dragon" with a reader's theatre script. Student's chose costumes and props to bring the story to life. We also worked on choreography to perform at the Winter Concert. Students did an amazing job writing 4- one minute plays with dialogue- and acting them out with a classmate. 

5th graders came up with their own major dramatic questions to act out. Students did an amazing job writing 4- one minute plays with dialogue- and acting them out with a classmate. After their wordplay unit in Wit & Wisdom- 5th graders learned about idioms that originated in the theatre. They chose one to act out for the class.