Fine Arts Standards - Age 4 (2023)
Lesson Plans

Strand 1: DRAMA

Drama provides creative opportunities for children to portray a variety of events, characters, or stories through taking on different roles, interacting with props, and engaging in dramatic interactions. Children explore roles individually and collaboratively when acting out experiences and observing the dramatic expression of peers and teachers.

Standard FA 4 yr.1.4

With prompting and support, work independently and cooperatively in dramatic play.

• Drama - Hello Toes, Hello Feet
  Children will act out the story by copying the actions the little girl has done while wearing different shoes  to help demonstrate the beginning, middle, and end of the story. 
• Drama - I Ain't Gonna Paint
  Children will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Children will be able to identify body parts, review and label several color words, and use rhyming to predict what will be painted next.  
• Drama - Re-enact Mel Fell
  Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. Mel is learning to fly and perseveres until she is successful.
• Drama - Saturday
  Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. 
• Drama - Theo's Mood
  Children will be assigned a main character in a story they have recently read.  They will act out the story with a beginning, middle, and end. 

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