We have been using some drama techniques to help us in reading, and last week we tried one to help us in our writing.
We had to write about a strange looking picture – it was dark and hard to work out what it was so we all discussed what we could see, and what it could mean. There were lots of different ideas and thoughts; some people thought it looked like a statue, or a monument, or a memorial or a chimney from the brick pits, or a mine, or even a statue from Easter Island.
Next we were grouped into groups of 4 and were asked to talk about the ideas we had about a story based on the photograph. We talked about the characters and the situation; what is happening and why is it happening?
Then we worked together to make a “photograph” or a still-life tableau showing the moment of conflict in our story.
Lastly people from other groups had to “tap in” to individuals in the photograph and find out what a character from the photo was doing/thinking/feeling.
It was interesting to see and hear the different ideas each group had about the same picture. We think that the talking, thinking, doing and acting out helped some of us to write much better this week.
Hello
. You guys looked like a great class cause you guys are working together as a team and communicating. 
Are you guys doing drama and writing cool . I wonder how you guys did that.
Dear Allstars, 🙂
It was really fun for me because I love drama and personally I think I am good at it! 😆
Wow! You are doing drama and writing that is awesome because honestly I really enjoy drama, 😆 I like writing but when it is meant to be a test I get very nervous, like today we had to do a narrative but actually I loved it because we needed to write about any animal, insect or creature. Then you have to write how it blends into something or how does it feast on its prey! 😀 I did a grasshopper (the first thing that popped into my head) so I wrote and wrote and wrote. 😀 What a coincidence we had drama today and it was so fun, it was meant to push us out of our comfort zone and act with our partners that we chose.
Sorry for the long comment, I can’t help myself writing a lot, I just get carried away in writing. I hope you enjoyed my comment! Thank you for reading
Happy Regards,
Diala
Dear Class,
I absolutely adore those pictures and I forgot to write it in 😛 🙄 I like all of them! They are great. The CPR is really cool 🙂 I wonder how you do drama in your class. Does anyone know? Because I would love to hear it
Sincerely,
Diala 😀
What a great idea to combine dram and writing. I bet you came up with some very interesting ideas.
Hello Mrs Thompson – thanks for your comment. It was good to use drama to help with our writing – we got lots more ideas by sharing with our friends, and we could also feel more what it was like in our story before we wrote it down 🙂