Calling All Actors

Today we were so lucky to have the first of three drama presentations.  We were so excited.  First we  learned that acting requires lots of focus - paying attention to one thing only!  We practiced how to do this by doing a variety of activities.  We also learned that acting requires us to use our imagination and our creativity to make others believe that something that is imaginary is real.  Our first task was to find as  many different ways to sit in a chair as possible.  Mike, our teacher, put 3 chairs out and chose 3 people at a time to sit in the chair.  Each time 3 new people sat in the chair they had to think of a different way to sit!  It got harder and harder to think creatively but Mike said we did a great job!

Next we practiced being different things (a snowman, a sunflower) and doing different things.  One thing we had to pretend to do was eat a whole pack of bubble gum and blow a big bubble that explodes and covers our face!  We also had to pretend to walk like a toddler, a kindergarten student, a teenager, a mom or dad going to work and finally an old person!   We loved using our bodies, different actions and facial expressions and our voices to do this. Then we had to use only our bodies to pretend we were walking on different types of surfaces.  We were  in two groups, one group acted and one group had to guess.  This was harder than we thought!

The last thing we did was to work in a small group and act out a scene.  Each group had exactly the same lines but different scenes.  The scenes were finding a big sister's diary, launching an attack on an army, entering into a haunted house, meeting aliens, jumping out of a plane for the first time.  It was interesting to use the same lines but change the scene!


Mike comes again tomorrow!  I wonder what we'll learn?
Have you ever done any acting?  Did you like it?