This class is a fun, active and creative opportunity to engage with puppet friends and peers and learn about the alphabet as we share an ongoing space adventure.  Teacher Meredith has over 30 years experience teaching creative drama classes for this age group, and her specialty is finding ways for every learner to engage and contribute to the story in their own special way.

Each day in class we:

-Greet the puppets and our learners for the day. 
-Introduce the letter of the day with a fun game, song or warm-up question.
-Introduce the problem to be solved in the adventure for the day (for example: "we've been invited to a party on Pluto.  What shall we bring?" or "we need to repair our space ship," or "our friend has fallen into a crater!"
-Get suggestions from all learners and puppets (these suggestions may be given verbally or through movement depending on learner preferences).  Depending on the skill level and interests of the particular group of learners, this process may include drawing a picture of their idea and/or practicing writing the letter of the day or a word that starts with that letter.
-Act out our adventure, including working as a team to solve our problem for the day.  Our letter of the day will be woven in to the adventure.
-Celebrate our solution to the problem and practice writing a simple word related to our adventure, starting with the letter of the day.


Weekly Themes:
Week of Sept 11: The letter "A."  We learn about being Astronauts and encounter the Asteroid belt.
Week of sept. 18:  The letter "B."  We must repair our space craft after a Breakdown.
Week of sept. 25:  The letter "C."  We rescue a space Creature from a Crater.
Week of oct 2:  The letter "D."  Dogs in space.
Week of oct 9:  The letter "E."  We invite some friendly space creatures to visit Earth.
Week of oct 16:  The letter "F."  One of our Friends runs our of Fuel for their space craft.
Week of oct 23: No class this week
Week of Oct 30: The letter "G."  We travel to a far away Galaxy.
Week of Nov 6: The letter "H." We travel to the Hubble telescope to check the cameras and hope to see an image of a black Hole in a far away Galaxy.
Week of nov 13: The letter "I."  We continue our adventure in the Galaxy with the Black Hole and search for signs of Intelligent Life on a planet covered in Ice.
Week of nov 20: The letter "J." We search for some missing Jelly Beans on planet Jupiter.
Week of nov 27:  The letter "K."  What if we were kings and queens of an icy object in the Kuiper belt?
Week of dec 4:  The letter "L."  We go on a Lunar mission to find Arnie, who is Lost.
Week of dec 11:  The letter "M." We use a Map to find Arnie on the Moon.
Week of dec 18:  The letter "N."