The plan is to teach groups of 20 children from grade one and up something that they can perform for their parents. We have about six hours total time to do this in, which is not a lot. Kim and I will be working separately as well. We also don't know how many groups we will be working with until registration starts to pick up. Last year there were students from kindergarten all the way up to grade ten enrolled.
We had previously thought that we might take some of our favorite childhood authors and dramatize some of their works, like Shel Silverstein's The Giving Tree. Given our time restraints I think that is now out of the question because of it's length. Perhaps though we could do some of Roald Dahl's Revolting Rhymes, Shel Silverstein's Light in the Attic or Where the Sidewalk Ends, and maybe even some Dennis Lee; like Alligator Pie. Brevity in this case being a major virtue. It might also be fun to throw in some Dr. Seuss perhaps a snippet of One fish, Two fish, Red fish, Blue fish for the grade one students. If anyone has some suggestions of more contemporary fun poetry please feel free to suggest it.
It would also be cool if we could do something a little bit different with each grade for instance; the grade ones make prop fishes, the grade twos make sock puppets, the grade threes make masks, grade fours act theirs out, grade fives do a movement piece, grade sixes do a shadow puppet show, the grade sevens and eights do poi, and we can actually develop something collectively with the upper level students.
My reasoning behind having both the sevens and eights doing poi is because they are all at that *special* age where they are very concerned about what others think. I think doing something that they perceive as cool or perhaps a little dangerous might appeal to them (it is totally not dangerous).
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