Table 2: Teacher structured Opportunities for developing preschool drama / role play:

Activity Name / Activity Type: Aspect of drama being addressed Resources:

e.g. short circle time activities /
Family games; role playing characters
from a favourite story with
varying degrees of direction
from the teacher; using puppets
and/or storyboards
(adapted from IB PYP)
e.g. Creative exploration and Expression; Technical
incorporation (use of props); Performance; Personal and
social development; Reflection, evaluation and
Appreciation; (Drama in society)

References: Using puppets Creative Exploration and Expression: Using puppets for the children
Creating and using a different voice for the
puppet. grandmother voice, dad voice The puppet it will be: mother/brother/father/sister/grand
father and mother.

Technical Incorporation: Using a puppet as a

prop.

Performance: Pretending, acting out the role

of the puppet for the teacher, the class and
their partner.

Personal and Social development: Taking

turns, being polite for your parents.

Organisation: e.g. Whole Class / Groups / Pairs / Dramatic Duration of Activity:

Play / Circle Time Area / Hall / Outside

Whole Class groups in the Circle Time Area Approximately 10-15 minutes.

What the teacher does: What the children do:

The teacher gives each child a glove puppet and has The children put on their glove puppets and listen to the teacher.
one herself. She asks them to put them on and to listen
quietly
T: Please put on your puppet gloves and listen quietly.

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She changes her voice to match the puppet and makes The children say Hello using their puppets voice.
her puppet say Hello to the class. She asks the
The children will act like the puppet they have
children to say Hello with their puppets using their
puppets voice. For example if the teacher have dad The children will guess the work for each member at home and what they are doing
puppet she will act like dad voice and the student if
they have mom puppet they will act like mum voice.
She will ask them what puppet they have and what
work they do at home
For example: hello Im a mother and I cook for my
children
Hello Im a sister and I help my mother

The teacher also will ask the student about the name Each student will say the puppet name my name is..
of the puppet they have for example in the children
have sister and she is a girl she will say her name and
if it is a boy he will say his sister name.

Then she will ask them what we are named? They will The children will listen to the teacher and know the member of the family
say parents of family and maybe they say the name of
the puppet they have
The teacher will tell them that they are family and the
family have mother brother father sister and
grandparents. also, they have uncle and aunt.

The teacher tell the student to be in group of 4 or 6 The student will sit as group of 4 or 6 togather and play with the puppets they have and they might play as parents
and it should have: mother, father, siste r, brother, of any member in the family
grandparents.
And then let them play together.

The teacher will ask the student to clean up and bac k The children will clean up and then will sit in the cir cle area to close the lesson.
the puppet in the place and sit in circle area and ask
them
T: did you like playing with puppets? What did you like
the best about the puppets? Which part of puppet
acting do you think you do well?

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Extension Ideas:
The teacher will let the student discuss and talk together to let them develop their social and emotional development.
Also, puppets will help the student to develop their fine and gross motor skills.
And this activity is really helpful for the student specially the special needs.

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