What brought thirty 4th-grade boys and girls (and three teachers) to school on a Saturday morning to sew glittery fish scales, assemble fish fry dinner plates, decorate sheet cakes, and paint bakery window displays? Would you believe me if I said, "OPERA"? What if I added that these same students had written the plot and lyrics themselves?! I was invited as one of the school art specialists to help with Opera Scenery Day.
Mrs. Anderson, the classroom teacher, has oodles to say about this experience. The students work through the writing process, setting it to a musical score, singing and staging production numbers, designing concept sketches for the props and scenery, and performing in front of their peers and families. I was honored to be a small part in this process and look forward to implementing some kind of similar program in my own classroom someday.
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