SteppingStone youth programs winter-spring
Children and teens will gain hands on performing arts experience with professional teaching artists.
African Drumming: Teacher introduced rhythms and let kids play bells, drums, and shakers. They made a lot of music and the kids had fun; parents stayed to listen!
Beat Boxing: Taught skills of making music with body and voice; performed with professional equipment. Always one of the very best programs we give. Terrell (Carnage) is excellent at getting kids to relax and be themselves and connect with others. Super fun for them.
Juggling involved teaching lots of elementary coordination and communication techniques through games, and then progressive difficulty with different objects. Participants loved having the opportunity to play and demonstrate new skills.
Camp Caldecott: 1. Aleema and John from SteppingStone Theatre presented an amazing Camp Caldecott program for preschoolers based on the book Don’t Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus by Mo Willems. They covered all the early literacy skills. They read the book twice, asking the kids to participate in the story (reading, talking) The children made buses out of construction paper using shapes and crayons (writing), then acted out driving their buses around the room at various speeds, making sounds and pretending to be the pigeon (playing, talking, singing). All of the children participated in the activities and the parents were able to see how a story can be extended in a number of ways. It was a valuable early literacy experience.
2. The story I chose was "Don't Let the Pigeon Drive the Bus," so the presenters had the children make a picture of a bus out of construction paper. They all pretended to get on a bus together at one point. The kids had a great time!