准备好了吗？灯光！镜头！Action!│双语部四年级戏剧表演

这一活动与本学期第二个探究单元的学习内容“我们如何表达自己（How we express ourselves）”息息相关。在这一单元中，同学们通过对视觉艺术、语言艺术和表演艺术的探索，很好地理解了 “人们总是通过艺术来进行互动和交流”的这一中心思想。

台上的孩子们演得尽兴，台下的观众们看得投入。多亏了这场演出，我们才发现班上原来有这么多宝藏演员、导演、旁白、编剧和设计师！

镜头摇回两周之前。孩子们从组队、分配任务开始，到寻找合适的故事、理解故事并改编成剧本，再到计划并制作服装道具、音效，继而多次彩排，就这样一步一步，才有了舞台上的精彩呈现。

此外，他们还收获了舞台表演中的诸多技巧，比如如何站台、如何使用麦克风、如何在后台做好准备等等。更重要的，他们学会了自主解决筹备过程中大大小小的问题。

希望这次活动所带来的美好能留存在孩子们的脑海中，成为他们成长的记忆。

The Grade 4 team of students and teachers were proud to have hosted our Grade Level Event last Friday, 26th October 2021. This semester’s event was linked to our second Unit of Inquiry, where we had been exploring the Central Idea “People have always interacted with each other and communicated using the arts”. Throughout the weeks, we explored visual arts, language arts and performing arts, which culminated in our summative assessment and Grade Level Event, a 2 hour long series of plays. The classes were assigned a country each – Sri Lanka for 4.1, Mexico for 4.2 and Germany for 4.3. The classes were then split into 3-5 groups who acted out a different folk tale from their given country in front of all Grade 4 students and guests at the International Hall.

The groups took to stage, engaged the audience with their performances and clearly had plenty of fun themselves. Indeed, we had not realised we had so many talented actors, actresses, directors, narrators, scriptwriters and designers! What the guests did not see was the process which begun two weeks ago when they formed their groups, assigned roles, found and attempted to understand their stories, rewrote them as plays, planned and then made their props, costumes and sound effects having researched these art forms in the country at the time and practiced acting out their plays, off and on stage. The classrooms were abuzz with activity and excitement.

It was an excellent opportunity for students to develop their verbal and non-verbal communication skills as they read and re-wrote their scripts and acted them out on stage using the body language, facial expressions, gestures and voice modulation we learned in class. They also developed their social skills as they learned to delegate roles and work well in their teams and their self-management skills as they learned to organise their time and focus on their goals.

There were the subtler lessons too, like stage presence, spatial awareness, proper positions, speaking into the microphones, getting ready backstage, learning new words, balancing playing different roles and lots of problem solving skills that the children developed very quickly. We hope these are lessons and memories that will stay on with the children a long time!