Fifth Grade Drama

This process-centered creative drama program builds basic theatre skills and vocabulary while focusing on the development of cooperative and group interactive skills, empathy, self-confidence, problem-solving, and creativity. Activities include improvisation, pantomime, theatre games, and story dramatization. Students explore and dramatize the world of folktales and literature through small group work, whole group work, tableaux, writing in role, and improvisation, and they create their own scenes inspired by this work.

Students attend Drama for an approximately six-week rotation at some point during the school year prior to Spring Break. Students then provide input about their personal interests and are assigned to participate for seven weeks in one of the four focus groups – Drama, Music, Dance, or Computer Literacy. The focus groups meet daily in preparation for the Extravaganza, collaboratively presented by the fifth grade at the end of May.

Sixth Grade Drama

The sixth grade drama program builds on basic acting and theatre skills through theatre games, performance and reflection. It focuses on developing cooperative and group interactive skills, empathy, and self-confidence. Activities include storytelling, improvisation, story drama, and character development.