Lil’ Rosies uses age-appropriate developmental milestones and works with each individual student based on their attention span and physical abilities. During each 30 minute workshop, toddlers and preschoolers learn and practice vocal and dance technique through our creative drama lessons. Creative Drama Activities include Color Recognition, Shape Classification, Emotion Identification, and Dance & Music Vocabulary.  Our classes also balance a combination of structured warm ups and organized character exploration activities specifically designed with the youngest artists in mind. Our four curriculum topics use all four learning modalities (VARK- Visual, Auditory, Reading/ Writing, Kinesthetic).

 Together we will explore the beauty of the summer earth beneath our feet with “The Child’s Garden of Verses” by Robert Louis Stevenson, Eric Carle’s “Seed,”  Arnold Lobe’s “Frog and Toad” and other stories. Combining art, theater, science and movement as we work together listening and sharing ideas. 

 Together students will explore  Dr. Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg OR The Lorax, while becoming more comfortable with creative drama activities and each other.  Student will express themselves physically, vocally and creatively through guided exercises.  This workshop aims to build confidence in acting, making bold choices and excited about using about using imaginative play.   

Two in-person creative drama sessions (30 minutes each): Preschoolers participate in two in-class creative drama sessions, led by a Rose Theater teaching artist. These two consecutive sessions that will focus on group storytelling, building an ensemble, and drama centered a classic fairy tale. The students will act out the fairy tale in their classrooms. Students will be introduced or asked to recall to the settings and characters of The Three Little Pigs, by exploring character, setting and acting out the story with their own twist.

Together we will explore The stories of Harold and The Purple Crayon with theatrical props and our acting tools, Body Voice and Imagination.  We will draw (with painter’s tape) on the floor and use an overhead projector to cast student drawn pictures on the walls of your classroom expanding our imaginary world just like Harold does!    

AVAILABLE AS A DIGITAL OR IN-PERSON OPTION

DIGITAL OPTION: Recorded Video Performance of the  Rose Theater’s play, Little Cub Goes to School: Preschool students will experience the World Premiere 11-minute production to be viewed at home with families or in the classroom. Little Cub Goes to School is a shadow puppet play created with young people to develop self aware-ness and self management skills to achieve school success.  

IN-PERSON OPTION: Creative drama sessions (30 minutes each). Preschoolers participate in an in-class creative drama sessions, led by a Rose Theater teaching artist. Workshop will focus on self-management, classroom rules and responsible decision making as well as puppetry. This is in direct connection/reflection/ expansion of the themes in  Little Cub Goes to School.