Towards the end of the Life Cycles Unit, Kinder read a story called "The Young Rooster" in Drama class. This story shares how a young rooster has to learn the job of waking up the sun every morning because his old rooster father passes away.
The young rooster is nervous and scared and doesn't do a very good job at first. When the sun doesn't come out, all of the animals on the farm are upset and let the rooster know that he will need to crow much louder for the sun to hear.
To understand the concepts of Form, Change and Connection, the students were asked to choose the part in the story they would like to play. The parts of the characters ranged from the Sun, the clouds, the rain, the Rooster, pigs, sheep, and bulls.
We looked at photos of the real animals that are featured in the story and we practiced how these animals move and what sounds they make, in preparation to play these parts.
Then, we began to rehearse the story several times in order to help the students learn the lines that they have to say and remember what to do when it was their turn. The students had to demonstrate different emotions based on the events taking place in the story as well as remember the "positions" they needed to be in from beginning to end.
While the Sun and the animals on the farm are asleep, the Young Roosters try to wake up the Sun for the first time....
It doesn't go very well because the clouds and the rain cover up the sky....
The other animals on the farm tell the Rooster to crow much louder because the Sun is millions of miles away!
So the animals decide to give the Roosters another chance.....
The Roosters take a deep breath and CROW!!
And it was the loudest crow ever heard in the history of roosters!
The Rooster proudly said "I was only doing my job....look see!" as the morning sun came out shining over the trees
