First Graders spent the month of September working on the story of Little Red Riding Hood. We read a version of the story by James Marshall. After reading, we identified the characters and used a drama technique called "hot seating" to dive more deeply into the characters' thoughts and motivations. The following week, we worked on physicality and movement for each of the characters. The final week, we acted the entire story as a play and focused specifically on dialogue. I think the students really enjoyed portraying the characters and story line from this well-known book. Recently, we have just finished a unit that applied our ongoing knowledge of addition and subtraction to create mini original plays. Students enjoyed being the director (or "THE BOSS") as they worked to create, cast, and narrate their own stories that demonstrated their understanding of mathematical concepts.
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A lot has changed since this time last year. As of next month, I will be updating this blog from a variety of locations and with a variety of schools. This year, I am stationed at Northeast, Mac Arthur, Fitzgerald, and the new Waltham Dual Language School. You can expect to see pictures and updates from all of these places in the coming months right here in this space. You can also follow me on Twitter twitter.com/mrscharlesdrama for more regularly updated reports of drama goings-on! See you soon!
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Mrs. CharlesMrs. Charles has been teaching drama for 17 years in the Waltham Public School system. She holds a Bachelors Degree from Hofstra University with a major in Drama and a minor in Russian, and a Masters Degree in Theatre Education from Emerson College. She is also dual certified in Performing Arts K-12 and Elementary Education. Mrs. Charles has worked as both an actor and theatre technician for local and regional theatre companies in New York, Virginia and Massachusetts. Archives
October 2016
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