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THE BENEFITS OF DRAMA AND PLAY
1-Drama builds confidence
Even with the shyest kids
2-Drama helps in concentration
In each session, children are encouraged
to listen to each other's ideas
3-Drama helps develop language and
communication skills.
Encourages students to express
themselves verbally and through facial
expressions and body language; To make them better at communicating.
4-Drama encourages children to cooperate.
Drama activities such as games,
improvisation,singing, and coordination, need cooperation
5-Drama supports numeracy skills.
just a few examples of how being involved in a drama can help to develop essential numeracy skills
6-Helping children to understand the
world around them
It presents the pupil with a wide variety
of real and imaginary situations, which raises their interest in the world in which
we live and makes them more curious
7-Drama develops emotional intelligence
Acting out a range of emotions in a safe
and supportive environment helps students to understand their feelings and develop empathy for others.
8-Drama assists physical development
playing simple percussion instruments, create simple movement sequences, and play drama games help students gain mastery over their growing bodies.
9- Drama develops creativity
Creative people can view things in new ways and from different perspectives. They can think on their feet and generate new ideas.
10- Drama nurtures friendships
By its very nature drama can create strong bonds between children as they laugh, learn and grow together week after week after week!
❊Science Matters
Catawba College Center for the Environment
Drama
The Virus
By Donald Falconer
Hi there, I’m the virus. My full name is Covid-19 but to be honest I’d really like if you called me George. My full time job is to be a kind of parasite. I’m pretty selfish by nature as I take and take and take and don’t give anything back in return. What I mean by that is that I seek out any human being I can get my hands on and infect them so I can survive. Unfortunately, I can’t walk or fly so I just have to hope someone touches me accidentally or I get coughed up into another human. I hate it when you wear those masks. I just want to live as long as I can. Nobody wants to die not even a virus. So, when I get inside you, I try to multiply as quickly as I can to spread my little offspring around the world. The problem is though, at the moment we haven’t quite got it right and we are killing a lot of our hosts. Yes you, especially the older people whose immune systems doesn’t work so good. But luckily, we can mutate ourselves to become less lethal. What that means is that our DNA, our genetic material changes so that we can survive longer inside you by not killing you. It’s all about survival and duplication for us, survival and duplication, you have to remember that. At the moment we are doing really well ’cause we’ve just about infected every country in world. That’s a pretty good achievement for something that’s invisible to the naked eye. Though you can see us under a high-powered microscope. Nobody really likes us, but don’t we have as much right to be in the world as every other organism? I bet you didn’t know that we were some of the first organisms to ever exist! so really, I am one of your ancestors. Get your head around that one if you can. Yes, and what credit do you give us? None! You are only out to exterminate us all. I have heard you’ve developed some vaccines. Imagine taking a little fragment off our body then injecting it into your bodies so you become resistant to us. What are those things your immune systems make? Yes antibodies, pesky antibodies. Antibodies are my biggest fear in the world. I know they will try to kill me. I sometimes I wake up in a cold sweat imagining I’m covered in horrible antibodies dragging me off to my destruction. In the beginning you feared me more than I feared you, but I think the tables are turning. Yes, I am afraid. All I can see is vaccine needles coming towards my little brothers and sisters. I can hear them calling out “No! Please! Don’t hurt me! I didn’t mean to cause you any harm.” I just want to live inside you, that’s all. Can we be friends? But you don’t want us to be friends, all you want is for us to die. But please understand we, like you, are only trying to survive.
The source: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dramanotebookteachers
