Thank you for coming last week to our drama program & project share! Every single child in our class had a family member present, which really meant a lot to them. The kindergarteners had so much fun working with Kevin on their "process drama" program, and were sad to say goodbye. Next year they will work with him as first graders. We just loved seeing the photos and videos from both kindergarten classes in Kevin's slide show. Your children were also so excited to share their model with you, of the fantasy playground they dreamed up during their drama study. Can you believe they built that model in just a few days? Your children sure love to create!
We thought you might like to see photos of the building of the model. There was so much problem solving, persistence, creativity and collaboration evident in what the class worked together to make. With Kevin, they planned what could be in an ideal playground, one which had something for children, animals and trees, and drew maps of their playgrounds in small groups. Then we looked at the maps and found what ideas the groups had in common. After the drama program had wrapped up, we got to work on the model: the class looked at a map of a real park, created the ground surfaces, signed up for who would build what parts of the playground, and finally found the materials in the classroom that were well matched to their building challenge.
When we return our class will put lots of time and effort into turning the block building apartments into their apartments, complete with furniture, toys, food and appliances. We just love doing this kind of project work with kindergartens, and your children clearly love it. After our playground building project, one of our students (Suni) was even inspired to make her own park model at home with clay, Q-tips and other materials from around home. Over the vacation we hope all of our students have time for creative projects at home, and hopefully good weather to play in a REAL park!
love,
David & Clara
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