- dress-up clothing
- Oscar and the Bat (book)
- play microphones
- toy animals and dolls
- character
- play
- pitch
- sound
- volume
MA Standards:
Literature/RL.PK.MA.3: With prompting and support, act out characters and events from a story or poem read aloud.
Head Start Outcomes:
Approaches to Learning/Initiative and Curiosity: Demonstrates flexibility, imagination, and inventiveness in approaching tasks and activities.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: Plans, initiates, and completes learning activities with peers.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: Joins in cooperative play with others and invites others to play.
Approaches to Learning/Cooperation: Plans, initiates, and completes learning activities with peers.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Language 1: Observe and use appropriate ways of interacting in a group (taking turns in talking; listening to peers; waiting until someone is finished; asking questions and waiting for an answer; gaining the floor in appropriate ways).
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12: Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
Health Education 19: Practice independence and self-help skills.
EEC Infant and Toddler Guidelines:
PW45: The older toddler develops self-help skills.
PW50: The older toddler engages in a variety of physical activities.
Let the Show Begin!
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Skill Focus: Creative Expression and Movement, Imaginative Play, Speaking and Listening, Vocabulary
Encourage small groups of children to put on their own play of a scene from Oscar and the Bat by Geoff Waring. (You may want to suggest just one or two pages from the book instead of the whole book.)
Ask children to dictate as you make a list of characters included in the scene chosen. Help children decide who will be each character.
- Help children practice their roles by rereading the scene with them and reviewing the sounds that are featured in it.
- Encourage children to use various voices and volume and pitch when recreating animal sounds.
- Give children creative ideas for setting up the area with props and be present to revisit the story if children request it.
Allow children to perform the play for a small group.