Wk 3: Playbuilding

This week we introduced a pretext (part of a story, story they don’t know about) about “Green Children” which builds on to a drama activity. This activity looks into playbuilding and would suit all k-6 stages and would implement it into my own teaching by actually getting the children to draw these questions out from a pretext they have not seen before? For example if a question was asked e.g. where were the Green Children’s parents? Wright (2012) believes “Visual narrative provides us with a means for making sense of the world and of experiences” (p. 18) where children can use their imagination to draw/sketch what the Green Children’s parents might have looked like. This can lead onto a physical activity where children get into groups of four and they act out what might have happened before the Green Children were found near the cave. With their visual image drawn down, they can manipulate it to suit any drama setting. 

Picture drawn in Wk. 3 Drama: Our interpretation of where the Green children ended up.

Reference

Wright, S. (2012). Children, Meaning-Making and the Arts. Frenchs Forest: Pearson Australia.