Grandpa Tom - Suitable for Age 4-6
Hugely popular series of 8 lessons plus the requested Christmas one!
KEY SKILLS- Watching & Listening, Responding To Action Prompts,Mime & Movement Guessing a Setting, Whole Class & Paired Activity, Suspense, Improvisation, Recall of Story Details, Detailed Mime, Character & Expression, Use of Own Ideas, Giving Opinions, Configuration, Drawing from the Story and Sharing
The Grandpa Tom character develops a connection with young children as one that they will begin to know and love.
They will also meet his quirky neighbour Mrs Bell and a puppy (sometimes played by a real puppy) Millie who the children will also enjoy seeing.
The lessons use repetition and familiarity to grow the confidence of the students.
Opportunities arise for them to give their own ideas and opinions and say what they would do within a given situation.
Creativity is expressed through drawings and artwork from the drama story and it becomes their own.
As they learn words these can be added to their pictures, as little extras.
Putting pencil to paper to create the drawings from the story is the first step in moving Drama into Literacy.
Then being able to talk about their drawings, explaining what is in them to partners or as a class, taps into the Drama skill of Presentation turning the activity full circle – Drama>Literacy>Drama.
GRANDPA TOM FEEDBACK
"Very attentive! I was surprised given the time of the term, but they were all very engaged. They were already engaging before being invited to, waving when you came on screen etc.
They were very enthusiastic and managed to play the game well with minimal nonsense, each awaiting their turn respectfully.
Some were more confident in the partner version which was lovely to see, with lots more detail being added to Grandad Tom and the animal actions.
80% were keen to share.
Next time I would save the picture story for a follow up input as the lesson was quite long by this point though again this could be the time of the term. The children were very keen to show their work and elaborate on it! They enjoyed the joining in parts but were very engaged watching, and very amused by all that was happening." S. Burns, Carlogie
“The children were completely absorbed and no-one had to be asked to focus.
Most wanted to be picked to be a character – particularly an animal. Those that did not are particularly shy.
They all wanted to show each other what they had done – even the shy ones!
All could retell the story with no difficulty and drew recognisable pictures. They also wrote the story with varying degrees of support.
Yes – lots of laughter at the silly faces at the start got them ‘hooked’ and after that they said they enjoyed everything.” S McKay Aberlady
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