Unicorns are Popular

I show the first graders a character card and they create dialogue--one little girl sees a Unicorn card and starts saying, "I'll help you, Santa!" I tell her that she is thinking of a reindeer and she tells me that the raindeer are sick...I tell her that she can make a bunch of money off of that story if she makes it a children's book!

Fiction Fun

In 5th grade drama, we are creating scenes where I give them two characters and they come up with conversation...these two kids came up with a story between an old man and an artist where the old man wants to hire the artist to paint a picture to be displayed at his funeral. The artist only does skateboart art, so he tries to pose the old man in all these hilarious skating positions to much difficulty. Then we talked about how funny it would be if the painting was displayed at the funeral with this old dude in some crazy skating pose. It seemed like straight off Sienfeld.

Kinder Fiction

JESSICA (KINDER): I am the queen and I live in a castle and my husband goes to work and I stay home and make gingerbread. Sometimes my husband eats all of the food and I don't have any.

I Eat That Also!

I was passing out the alphabet puppets for the PreK kids and the letter V-VULTURE went to... 

 AIDEN: My puppet eats DEAD FOOD!

This Witch Likes Cute Boys

RILEY (kinder): In the story, "Handsome and Gretle," the witch tries to eat Handsome.

Teaching From Home

Howdy!  I've been teaching Drama from home now, so now anyone can see my class!  Here was the first lesson I submitted and I was super nervous because I only had a few hours to get it together and it had to be 30 minutes. <3 p="">

https://blogs.houstonisd.org/hisdtv/2020/04/17/3rd-5th-fine-arts-theatre-acting-a-story/

Nice Costume

When a kid shows up with an injured wrist or some other injury that requires them to have a bandage wrapped around their arm or leg, I’ll say to the kid, “Nice start to your Mummy costume—if you finish it, no one will even know you’re injured.”