By Jennifer Pergament | Director, Programs for Enhancing Potential
This month’s update focuses on “Rise Above” – an original theater program where kids with special needs can enjoy and show off what they do! Where there is no judgment! Where they are free to be themselves!!
Just last week, we had so much fun performing and dancing to our favorite songs! Students first met as a group and decided that they wanted to dance! Each child picked a favorite song and had to think about how they wanted to add to the message of the song. Rebecca decided she wanted to dance to Bruno Mars’ “Count On Me” to help her explain how she felt when she was with her friends. Students added dance moves that would help “tell” the song and finished it up by creating a dance routine to go along with it. The students acted out the song and added their own creative touches making each performance their own.
The idea, production and direction of the class come from two teenage theater mavens who work with our special education teacher along with our Director of Programs for Enhancing Potential to create stimulating and appropriate curriculum for our students with special needs. The students and the staff are all having such a great time watching the kids learn to act and sing! Of course, it is especially rewarding to see the kids socialize with each other and smile when they "take a bow."
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