Celebrations can take many forms; Birthday parties, cultural holidays such as Christmas and Hanukkah, family gatherings, national days of independence, dances, the list goes on. In Drama, we are going to celebrate our creative energy, who we are growing up to be and all of the things we can do now.
By popular demand, we take part in the movement-game favorite of "The Night Guard at the Museum". Each student in the class is one of the statues in the museum and 1 or 2 are chosen to be the night guards whose job it is be sure that all is well while the museum is closed. When the guards have their backs turned, the statues can come to life and move as they wish but as soon as the guards turn back around, all of the statues must freeze in place.
Any "broken" statues that the night guards see moving must be taken to the "repair room", meaning that the statue has been taken out of the game.
"Dance & Freeze" gives us more reasons to celebrate as we dance and move our bodies the ways the music motivates us to. Here we listen to holiday songs to get us into the mood of going on our holiday break! Once the music stops, we freeze immediately and hold our position.
Scarves are added for tactile and visual stimulation.
The poem, "I Like Myself", celebrates all of the wonderful elements that make us who we are. Our feet, our hands, the way we move as well as the way we think. Kinder classes are currently learning this poem through movement as well as recitation, developing their memorization abilities and expressing these ideas through physical movement.
