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ACTING UP! - gr. K-1

Welcome to the BACKSTAGE PAGE for our ACTING UP! families.  Theater is a shared experience, often between actor and audience member, where one relies on the other for theater to happen.  Our Kidstock! class is a shared experience between our Educational Artists and our students, but we also believe that our Kidstock! class is a shared experience between you and your child!  We hope this page includes you in the creative and imaginative theater play we explore each week!

Brian Milton, Founding Creative Director

CURRICULUM

ACTING UP focuses on collaborative storytelling and creative problem solving through reimagining plots.  On the first week a storybook is introduced, we interactively read the story but save the ending for the following week.  Students then invent their own solutions to character’s problems through an art project and performing the group’s ideas onstage, learning basic acting skills along the way.  The following week, students explore the storybook they will use for their final performance by learning elements of it and drawing their ideas of making the storybook into a play.  They then revisit the previous week’s story through performing it onstage and adding in the author’s ending.

We reveal the author’s ending after fully exploring the student’s ideas, therefore we encourage parents not to introduce the book at home until after we have fully finished it in class.
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Jackie Daley, Education Director

CLASS SCHEDULE

MONDAY
  • 4:30-5:45
Class Dates
  • JAN 27
  • ​FEB 3, 10, 24
  • MAR 3, 10, 17, 24, 31
  • APR 7
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No Class On
  • ​FEB 17

​Final Class Presentation at
  • 5:15pm
TUESDAY
  • 4:30-5:45​​
Class Dates
  • JAN 28
  • ​FEB 4, 11, 25
  • MAR 4, 11, 18, 25
  • APR 1, 8
No Class On
  • ​FEB 18

​Final Class Presentation at
  • 5:15pm
WEDNESDAY
  • 4:30-5:45
Class Dates
  • JAN 29
  • ​FEB 5, 12, 26
  • MAR 5, 12, 19, 26
  • APR 2, 9
No Class On
  • FEB 19

​Final Class Presentation at
  • 5:15pm
THURSDAY
  • 4:30-5:45
Class Dates
  • JAN 30
  • ​FEB 6, 13, 27
  • MAR 6, 13, 20, 27
  • APR 3, 10
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No Class On
  • ​FEB 20

​Final Class Presentation at
  • 5:15pm
FRIDAY
  • 4:30-5:45
Class Dates
  • JAN 31
  • ​FEB 7, 14, 28
  • MAR 7, 14, 21, 28
  • APR 4, 11
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No Class On
  • FEB 21
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​Final Class Presentation at
  • 5:15pm
SATURDAY
  • 10:15-11:30
Class Dates
  • FEB 1, 8, 15
  • MAR 1, 8, 15, 22, 29
  • APR 5, 12


​No Class On
  • FEB 22

​Final Class Presentation at
  • 11:00am​

OUR PLAN FOR EACH WEEK

WEEK ONE
Introduction to physical & emotional acting.
​Introduce the storybook BOY by Phil Cummings up to point of conflict
WEEK TWO
Explore characters & costumes.
​Share the author's ending of last week's storybook.
WEEK THREE
​Emotional dialogue.
​Introduce the storybook ​SOMEBODY LOVES YOU, MR. HATCH by Eileen Spinelli.
WEEK FOUR
Settings & playing defined roles.
​Share the author's ending of last week's storybook.
WEEK FIVE
​Begin learning about performance & theater.
​Introduce the storybook ​MARY HAD A LITTLE HAM by Margie Palatini.
WEEK SIX
Continue learning about performance & theater.
​Share the author's ending of last week's storybook.
WEEK SEVEN
​Creating dialogue.
​Introduce the storybook ​LOVABLE LYLE by Bernard Waber.
WEEK EIGHT
Performing a story as an assigned character.
​Share the author's ending of​ last week's storybook.
WEEK NINE
​Rehearsing for a story performance.
Introduce the storybook A TAIL FOR JOEY by Steven Von Kohorn.
WEEK TEN
Performing a story for an audience.
​Rehearse and perform our presentation.