Arts Integration- Hudson Elementary #2

We just finished our second week teaching second graders at Hudson Elementary school. This weeks focus was to integrate drama into our lesson. We started off by reading a book about how to recycle and in this book, there was a lot of examples of household items we can recycle every day. Some of these included plastic bottles, newspaper, cardboard tubes, paper, and so many more. Next, we laid out a bunch of items that our group brought as examples of recyclable materials and things that we could use to make our puppets. We talked through each of the materials and what they could be reused as.



We then introduced the reader's theater to the kids and told them we would be creating puppets to go with each of their characters they were assigned. The kids really liked being able to create their puppets out of the materials we had available to them like egg cartons, newspaper, pipe cleaners, cardboard boxes, tape, plastic bags, and lots of other stuff. Their puppets turned out really well and they were able to make them relate to the character they got. For example, the cow was made from a milk carton, the bugs were made from pieces of an egg carton.

We began reading through the reader's theater and this gave each kid the opportunity to go through their lines and get used to 'performing'. The kids overall really enjoyed this and I think if we had more time, they would have been able to practice and get it down really well!