Awakening The Creative Spirit – Fall Classes Begin September 20th, Monday thru Friday 3:30-4:30 PM
$ 25.00 per class. Register weekly for one or more classes!
Call 401-334-4800 or email secondstagestudio@verizon.net for more information
Music is the language of the spirit. It opens the secret of life bringing peace, abolishing strife. Kahlil Gibran
Mondays: Peace is a Child Smiling
Partially based on Angell Bear Yoga- a program to strengthen little bodies and build character through yoga, nature,
and creative imagery. Music, reading aloud, and creative performance have been added to further enhance and inspire children on all levels.
Keys of Light
The child whispered, “God Speak to me” and the meadowlark sang. The child did not hear.
So the child yelled, “God speak to me!” and the thunder rolled across the sky. But the child did not listen.
The child looked around and said, “God, let me see you” and a star shone brightly. But the child did not know.
So the child cried out in despair, “Touch me, God, and let me know you are here!” Whereupon, God reached down and touched the child.
But the child brushed the butterfly away and walked way unknowingly.
Angel Bear Yoga seeks to open your child’s eyes to the beauty around them. In doing so, they will feel
connected to the world around them and see the interconnectedness of all things.
Learning compassion and respect for all living things, will grow wings of action to care for the world.
Angel Bear Yoga focuses on fifty positive character traits; abundance, acceptance,adventure,beauty,choices,comfort, compassion,confidence, contentment,courage,courtesy,dreams,enthusiasm,fairness,flexibility,forgiveness,freedom, future,giving, graitude,honesty,hope,identity,imagination,inspiration,joy,knowledge,laughter, listening,love,optimism, patience,peace,perseverance,possibilities,reflection,respect,responsibility,seeing,strength,thoughts,time, touch,treasures, trust,truth, understanding, uniqueness, wholeness, words
Tuesdays: Creative Drama
In essence, creative drama is dramatic activities which have the experience of the participants as the goal. This differs from theatre classes in which preparation for a performance is the objective. Creative drama is usually reserved for children four to nine years old – ages or stages of development when participants can benefit from dramatic experience if there is no pressure to perform. Creative drama can include dramatic play, story enactment, imagination journeys, theatre games, music, and dance. “Let’s pretend” is the norm in creative drama class, not just a child’s game. Creative drama can help children learn about emotions, problem solving, and relating to other people. Through their experiences with drama, students develop their imaginations and their confidence. One of the most special things about creative drama is that there are no “wrong” answers – through pretending, animals can talk, kids can travel to outer space or the jungle, and the sky can be green while the grass is blue.
Fairy/Folk Tales/Tall Tales and Myths
Children enjoy acting out stories with humorous people or situations, and usually are willing to play inanimate objects that relate to the plot.
Fairy tales are the oldest stories in the world. They were first made by adults who were childlike for their own amusement, and so they amuse children still, and also grown-up people who have not forgotten how they once were children.
We will be choosing stories from The (Color) Fairy Book, (Series) Lang, Andrew, Ed. : There are twelve books in this series, each named with a different color (i.e. Blue, Pink, Yellow, Lilac). The publications Include some stories of Hans Christen Anderson and the Brothers Grimm along with many little known fairy tales.
Poetry
Poems provide a unique opportunity for a creative drama class, as they can be “acted out” instantaneously or after planning. Because poetry is often written in first person, it is easy for the participants to put themselves into the actions or emotions expressed in the poem.
We will be choosing works from the following poets: Shel Silverstein: A Light in the Attic, Where the Sidewalk Ends, and Falling Up /Jack Prelutsky: A Pizza as Big as the Sun, New Kid on the Block, The Dragons are Singing Tonight, and Something Big has Been Here/ A. A. Milne: Now We are Six, and When we were very young
Children’s Books
A good children’s book can provide enough activities for an entire creative drama class period. We will be choosing children’s books that allow us to create a warm-up, a game, and an art project based on the theme of the book in addition to drama experiences.
Wednesdays: Sing Along and Dance Along
All children are born with the potential to be musical and learn through movement and absorbing. Research findings show that the early years offer an optimal window for nurturing that potential, and support the importance of music and movement in early childhood… Musical experiences can kelp enhance learning, listening and literacy while providing tools to promote social and emotional success. Music should be recognized as an art form and appreciated for its pure enjoyment and enriching qualities…Gari Stein’s Sing With Me Music Program
Music will be chosen from the following recources:
Sing With Me! – Summer – Gari Stein
Jungle Beat – Lyn Kleiner
Songs of the Sea-Lynn Kleiner
Music from Around The World – Brad Shank
Carnival of the Animals – San-Saens
Peter and the Wolf – Sergei Prokofiev
The Four Seasons – Vivaldi
Children will experience the sound, rhythms and meanings of many different types of music from all over the world. They will get used to movement in a continuous flow using their imagination and creativity such as swaying in a gentle wind, in a storm, on calm waves, like a blade of grass… We will talk about the chosen music, how it makes each individual child feel encouraging their own ideas concerning movement. Materials such as ribbons, scarves and large pieces of material will be provided as well as various percussion instruments. When the music chosen contains lyrics we will treat them as poetry or short stories encouraging children to dramatize as well as to move to the selected piece. In this class a child’s joy in movement is encouraged and where that movement or dramatization leads is not known until it happens..Creativity is awakened…
Thursdays: Making Music
Why is Music Important for Kids?
This question has been debated for as long as time has existed. Even the great Greek and Roman philosophers approached the question: is music something that should be taught and does it help the development of children? Plato answered “I would teach children music, physics, and philosophy; but most importantly music, for in the patterns of music and all arts are the keys to learning.” And again “what then is the education to be? Perhaps we could hardly find a better than that which the experience of the past has already discovered, which consists, I believe, in gymnastic, for the body, and music for the mind.”Based on:
Music for Little Mozarts
Written by Christine H. Barden, Gayle Kowalchyk, and E. L. Lancaster to encourage a love for music in young children, ages 4-6, and to help them begin learning to play piano. These books help develop singing and listening skills while imparting an appreciation for many musical styles! The adventures and lessons are exciting and imaginative.
Fridays: Painting The Music
Students will learn to create art from the emotions and feelings created by music by illustrating the color and motion of music.
Imagine
Creating Art using Music and Feelings
Creating A Work of Art Together
Creative Watercolor Painting
Music That Is Like Me
A Self Portrait
All supplies and materials are included.
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