Drama Warm Up
Erin K Hulse, Drama Resource Teacher, APS ARTS Center hulse@aps.edu
880-8249 ext 160
Appropriate grade levels: K-2+
Objectives:
Students will recognize vegetables traditionally harvested in the fall.
Students will focus on oral cues.
Students will cooperate and collaborate with peers.
NM Common Core Standards Addressed/ELA Listening and Speaking
Comprehension and Collaboration
1. Prepare for and participate effectively in a range of conversations and collaborations with diverse partners, building on others’ ideas and expressing their own clearly and persuasively.
2. Integrate and evaluate information presented in diverse media and formats, including visually, quantitatively, and orally.
3. Evaluate a speaker’s point of view, reasoning, and use of evidence and rhetoric.
Presentation of Knowledge and Ideas
5. Make strategic use of digital media and visual displays of data to express information and enhance understanding of presentations.
6. Adapt speech to a variety of contexts and communicative tasks, demonstrating command of formal English when indicated or appropriate.
NM Fine Arts/Theatre Standards Addressed
Standard 1: Learn and develop the essential skills and meet technical demands unique to dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts.
Standard 2: Use dance, music, theatre/drama and visual arts to express ideas.
Materials:
Chairs for students arranged in a circle
Room for students to move
Images of vegetables from a fall harvest
Procedure:
Review the types of vegetables that are harvested during the fall.
This is a variation of musical chairs. Set chairs around the room or in a circle.
Discuss with students four fall harvested vegetables—pumpkin, corn, chile, beans
Randomly assign each student one of the four veggies. “Suzy, you’ll be corn, Thomas, you’ll be chile, Bob, you’ll be beans, Maria, you’ll also be corn” etc….
Call out a type of vegetable, all children who have been assigned that veggie stand up and try to find a different chair.
Name the veggie randomly, giving all children a chance to switch chairs.
Call "Harvest Soup" when you want everyone to change chairs at once.
Let a student be the caller for the next round.
Modifications/Extensions:
Use vocabulary from other seasons or areas of study: Winter—snowflake, icicle, mittens, hot chocolate Summer—sandcastle, beach towel, ball, shark Math—addition, subtraction, number, equation Geometry—square, triangle, rectangle, circle Reading—character, setting, problem, theme
Rather than calling out a veggie, have a visual image with the word on the back.
Include more veggies so fewer students move at one time.