Elise Joyner

October 23, 2018 Elise Joyner Alyssa Adair’s 1st Grade Class Blackridge Elementary School Name of activity: Emotion/Character Circle Grade: 1st Grade Purpose of the activity: Embody an emotion or situation to understand how that would feel or what it would look like; use words that lend themselves to opinion statements Management notes: Emphasize the importance of having quiet mouths and keeping to your own space Procedure: ·      Everyone stands in a circle. There is a teacher or facilitator in the middle. ·      Everyone in the circle turns so that they are facing the outside of the circle. ·      The facilitator will say an emotion or a situation that the people in the circle will embody with their faces, posture, and breath. The people in the circle will have a moment to think of how they will react. o   Possible emotions or situations: happy, sad, angry, excited, playing on a beach, going to school, playing at home, eating, etc. ·      On the count of three (

This visit was great! I feel like we made break throughs with curriculum and made important connections with the activities we did. The first activity that we did was called “Emotion Circle.” The students stood in a circle with me in the middle. They started by facing the outside of the circle. I called out an emotion or a situation for them to think about how they would portray it with their bodies and faces. On the count of three, they turned around and struck a pose to show me what that specific emotion or situation meant to them. We did things such as happy, sad, excited, going to Disney Land, first day of school, etc. The students responded really well and gave plenty of variety in their answers. At the end of the game, we made the connection that everyone feels things differently and has different interpretations of the same topic. We related that to the idea of an opinion- it is different for each person. We, then, kept rolling with the idea of

October 16, 2018 Elise Joyner Alyssa Adair’s 1 st Grade Class Blackridge Elementary School Name of the Game: Numbered Levels Grade: 1st Grade Purpose of the game: Get wiggles out, allows students to be comfortable creating levels with their bodies and moving around for future drama activities and lessons; provides a familiar game that we have already done to help students remember what we had done before they went on the break Procedure: Each number is a level (1 on the ground to 5 is a jump or reach, the other numbers are in between) Each level is where the individual student is comfortable Start by establishing the levels and going back and forth 1-5 to practice what each level is One person calls out numbers Everyone goes to the called level and repeats the number Have different students choose a number and repeat the process Possible time: 7 minutes If time: Name of activity: Emotion/Character Circle Grade: 1 st Grade Purpose of t

Today was an exciting day! It was the first day that we integrated dramatic activity into the curriculum that the class has already been learning. We started out with the Number Levels game that we played last time. The students were excited to show me that they remembered how to play from the previous visit. We were able to jump right into this game without much instruction. This served as a warm-up to get the kids moving and thinking. The main focus of the lesson was on teaching “5-Finger Retell” through drama. “5-Finger Retell” is the different parts of a story broken down so that children can begin to analyze a text: 1) character, 2) setting, 3) problem, 4) solution, and 5) plot. The class has been talking about this concept over the past couple of weeks, so I wanted to use an activity that could help them solidify the idea and assess if they can pick out each part within a story. For the activity, I talked and explained what acting is. We did a