"What did you do at school today?" It can be challenging to get young children to talk about what they did that day, but in my experience, children who attend Pyjama Drama at their nursery or preschool can't wait to tell their family EVERYTHING they did!
That's because drama is action-based and experiential. Children learn through 'doing' as they are exposed to a range of imaginary worlds and characters and experience meaningful and memorable interactions.
Yesterday, for example, we ran away from the Grand Old Duke of York (because we'd marched up and down one too many hills) and hid in the duck pond, where we pretended to be flowers waving gently in the wind. We also hid in the pantry, in a bush, in the dog basket, and behind Tescos, and at one point nipped to the seaside for a quick ice cream. Eventually, we persuaded the Grand Old Duke of York to join us for a spa day and enjoyed getting our toes nibbled at by the frogs who were bathing in our foot bath.
Who wouldn't remember a day like that?
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