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[Papa Smurf]

So i've been given the task of teaching drama to 11 kindy kids, for 40 minutes twice a week.

All I've got is a story book and 7 characters. At the end of the month they have to perform the book as a play.

Any ideas????

Cheers

[yuria]

Chose 2 or 3 best students (those who can memorize well), and give them the major parts. Have the others memorize short parts in groups. I'd explain the story first (read and explain I guess), give them their lines, practice it together. If I were you, I'd have them practice with props because when I had my kindies perform with different props, they had no idea what to do, even though it was supposed to be the same -.-;;


I'm not sure if what I wrote just made sense. I'm babbling at the moment, the heat is getting to me..

[discostar23]

[esetters21]

[yuria]

Yes, after re-reading my post, I do agree that my advice was bad
However the place I had worked, we had been given scripts already made with the story book. If the parents complained, I just added in some extra lines I know it's bad, but I really had no experience teaching drama. It was just thrown at me, so I had to work with what I had. Surprisingly though, only one parent complained. I'm thankful it's over and won't be doing it ever again.

[Cheonmunka]

Not necessarily bad advice Yuria.

I've been arranging a similar thing and caught this thread so want to talk about it:
I've been working on Three Little Pigs preparing to go into a drama. No audience or any special occasion. Just for fun as a class. Originally I sought just to watch and talk about the story, but now want to do a play and can use it.
My schedule is 15-20 minutes with each class of up to 36 kids (public kindy.)
First class I started with a Disney video (usurped from Youtube) and we all watched it and talked about it and sang together.
Second class I repeated parts of the video and did sequencing with hand drawn pictures of the events that kids would come and stick in order on the whiteboard + more singing and saying lines.
For the third class I have made some puppets with colored felt and cardboard, a wolf, with a big mouth that you stick your hand in, and three hand-held pigs. I have some simple standalone box pieces for the houses as props. Will be doing that later this morning.
We'll take it sequentially using printed stills (storyboard) from the video as starters - some students will go thru a couple of events, then change students for next scene ... then all back again and repeat ...

It's going well I think especially as they truly enjoy that kind of story.
Hopefully it will pan out so that we can approach different stories in a similar way.

However, I wish the students weren't so many. Can't help it really. Is there a way I can include all students at once doing something in groups? We sang and spoke parts as a group .. It's no real problem for kids to watch others and wait for their turn to do a bit of action in front of class, is it?