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Please click on the "+" icon to upload any photos or videos from your shadow puppetry explorations with your students. In the note section, please share some brief information, such as your name, the grade level you are working with, the content you are bringing to life through shadow puppetry, and any thoughts about the experience you'd like to share...Thank you!

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Grade 2- Mrs. Farias

Students learned about different leaders around the world, both past and present. I provided students with the narrative and they created the dialogue to be spoken after the narrator spoke. I printed many photos and students glued them down and cut them out. In the future, students will create more puppets and props without me printing it out for them.

I used chat gpt to help create the narrator portions. :)

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Grade 5- Mr. Kuykendall's Class Integrating art with ELA.

We had been studying the folktale Blancaflor and decided this would be the perfect story to tell using shadow puppetry.

Each group was given a different scene and they had to create the characters, the background settings and any props they wanted to include. Students drew their own puppets (which did take some time) and needed to use their creativity. Students were also given the task of writing their own scripts based on the story.

Students loved the creative process and had an amazing time working together on these projects. Students were shy at the beginning (this video) and tended to speak quietly but after watching the videos as a class they saw their mistakes and did much better the second time around. Unfortunately I did not film those.

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Martina the Beautiful Cockroach

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We read the story "On My Way to School" in the Wonders Literature Anthology.Then, students first made the puppets, assigned parts, and practiced together.

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Mrs. Romerdahl's 1st Grade Class: On My Way to School

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Mrs. Romerdahl's 1st Grade Class: On My Way to School

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Next, they practiced with the puppets and flashlight.

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Then they figured out the logistics...

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A little rehersal time and then we were ready...

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Last, we put on a shadow puppet production of "On My Way to School". Each group was responsible for one of the five excuses given for why the boy was late for school. We are amateurs and have a lot to learn, but we learned a lot from this experience and enjoyed it!

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Grade 2 - Mrs. Cabico's Class

Integrating art with science/research!

For Science, students were already in habitat research groups. We've taken part of their group research (food chains from their habitat) and incorporated shadow puppetry with it.

Each student picked an animal from their group's researched food chain, group leaders were the narrators. They researched even more specific facts to help form their dialogue/script, created their puppet on their own, practiced in their groups, then finally performed for their classmates.

The process did take time, but so much fun, learning, and engagement occurred. They felt proud of their hard work as classmates gave them many compliments after each of their performances.

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Performed by Mr. Chung's class December 2023

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Performed and filmed by Mr. Chung's class

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Grade 2 - We used our weekly Wonders story, "Biblioburro" for our shadow puppets. Students first worked on identifying the characters, setting, and plot, and then created the puppets based off of that.

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Mr. Chung's class with the help of Mr. Brian transformed their story from Wonders (ELA curriculum) "Anansi Learns a Lesson" to a shadow puppetry performance.

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Ms. Culpepper/Mr. Kealy

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Ms. M's 1st Grade Class: The First Thanksgiving

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Ms. M's 1st Grade Class: The First Thanksgiving

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Ms. M's 1st Grade Class: The First Thanksgiving