If you don’t live it, it won’t come out of your horn. ~ Charlie Parker
Puppets, Puppets, Puppets, part one
At long last, the unit on theater writing and puppet shows has ended (it stretched into the new year when usually, it is over before the holiday break). While the focus of instruction and activities is all around the writing of a play script (with attention to theme, character and plot), the culmination is the performance of student-originated puppet shows for younger students in our school.
Last week, we spent one day videotaping all of the shows (21 in all — over four classes) and then two other days were spent performing for students from kindergarten through second grade. I think we had about 13 different visiting classes (some were combined).
I’ll write more this week about how I set up the online video site, but here is a link to all of the puppet shows. Feel free to leave comments for my students. I will be taking them to the site in the classroom on Thursday (hoping the videos will all stream fine).
Peace (in crazy little puppets),
Kevin
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about 3 years ago
I have only had time to view a few of the videos. These are great! I will come back and watch the rest of the videos soon.