- Abiyoyo (book)
- magic wands
- miscellaneous small objects such as stuffed animals
- poster board and markers
- props (capes and tall hats)
- appear
- applaud
- audience
- disappear
- wand
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:
Literacy Knowledge/Book Appreciation and Knowledge Retells stories or information from books through conversation, artistic works, creative movement, or drama.
PreK Learning Guidelines:
English Language Arts/Reading and Literature 12 Listen to, recite, sing, and dramatize a variety of age-appropriate literature.
EEC Infant and Toddler Guidelines:
PW50. The older toddler engages in a variety of physical activities.
Disappearing Objects Show
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Skill Focus: Imaginative Play, Listening and Speaking, Vocabulary
Invite children to put on their own disappearing objects show. Demonstrate how to make things disappear (putting them behind their back, in their fist, etc.) Allow children practice time. Help them create a sign to announce the show. Help children make connections to the book Abiyoyo. Ask, How did the boy’s father make things disappear? Why? How did the father use his wand for good?