Over the last several weeks the Tel Aviv All Stars have been exploring Fairy Tales in a variety of ways. The children have really enjoyed listening to stories, eating special snacks, writing different story endings, art activities, but most of all they loved acting out the stories in our puppet theater, on the felt board and up on the big stage (our circle area).
In the past I have mentioned that the teaching staff is reading Learning Together with Young Children, and we discuss each chapter at our staff meetings. In preparation for our up-coming meeting, we were asked to read chapter 6 "Dig Deeper to Learn with Children". The section about Story Dramas really excited me...Because the children have been so passionate about acting out dramas with what ever tools or materials they happened to be using(puppets,props,edible dioramas,felt etc). So in order to frame and further this natural interest I decided to introduce the children to story dramas. They took to it like glue!
What is a Story Drama? Good question! A story drama is when children draw an illustration simple with stick figures or others can be complex, depicting every detail of the story. Next the children are asked to dictate the story to go along with their drawings. The last component of the process is for the children to act out the stories.
Today I introduced story dramas in small groups. They had the opportunity to illustrate and dictate their stories. Tomorrow we will ask the authors one by one to go up on stage with their story and drawing and choose the part they would like to play! The story will be read carefully for the group to notice each of the roles before the rest of the cast is decided. Stay tuned for updates on roles in the plays and details about the dress rehearsals.
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