EDUCATOR’S GUIDE Kindergarten

EDUCATOR'S GUIDE Kindergarten

EDUCATOR'S GUIDE Kindergarten

Table of Contents

Letter to Educators, Parents, and Caregivers

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ArtsPower's Musical, Chicken Dance

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Watch the Show! - Discussion Questions and Answers

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Chicken Dance Book

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Writing Responses

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Vocabulary Words

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Learn to Sing and Dance "The Chicken Dance"

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Art Activities

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Common Core Standards

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Fall 2020

Dear Educators, Parents, and Caregivers,

Welcome to ArtsPower Theatre On Demand's Study Buddy, a learning and activity guide for ArtsPower's musical, Chicken Dance.

This guide has been carefully crafted to provide meaningful information and enjoyable activities designed to pique your student's interest in learning about the musical and the book upon which it is based. We also invite them to participate in singing and dancing workshops and art activities. For your convince student printable activity pages can be found in two locations: on the corresponding artspowerondemand. page and in the Student Study Buddy Packet.

We have created this Study Buddy to meet Core Curriculum Standards, which appear at the end of each lesson. You can find more information about these Standards online at .

Please note that the activities in this Study Buddy are simply suggestions. You may alter or expand upon them to suit your own needs and expectations. We hope you will encourage your students to submit their work to us, only with your written approval to ondemand@, so that we may post it on the artspowerondemand. website. It is our hope that students from around the country will be able to see what their peers are thinking and experiencing.

Please feel free to share your comments and suggestions with us at ondemand@.

Thank you for using this Study Buddy! We are grateful for your continued commitment to sharing your skills and guidance with young people!

Yours for the Arts,

Mark A. Blackman Founding Co-Director

Isabel Blatt Curriculum Coordinator

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ArtsPower's Musical, Chicken Dance

Lesson Plan Objective: To introduce students to ArtsPower's musical, Chicken

Dance.

Educator Instructions: You can read the "Musical Summary for Students" on the

following page to your students and show them the playbill which will introduce them to the cast. If you would like your students to watch the show as one 55-minute video, proceed to "Watch the Full Show! ? Single Video." We recommend the show be watched in parts with discussion questions.

Musical Summary for Educators

ArtsPower National Touring Theatre's Chicken Dance musical, based on the book by Tammi Sauer with illustrations by the 2015 Caldecott Award winning artist Dan Santat, portrays the story of Marge and Lola, two friendly and determined chickens who set out to win the Barnyard Talent Show and its first prize: two tickets to see the famous rooster Elvis Poultry in concert.

There is only one problem: Marge and Lola are unable to figure out their act for the talent show.

Marge and Lola are not the only act vying for the first prize. Mac the Duck, the barnyard bully, is entered in the show and continually reminds his chicken friends that they have no chance of winning the contest.

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Elsie, the barnyard's sweetest cow, decides that she, too, will compete in the talent show, even though she is painfully shy and struggles to summon the courage to compete in the contest.

Entertaining scenes of Marge, Lola, their fellow talent show competitors, and the amazing Elvis Poultry, all in eye-catching costumes and singing a rich musical score, are played out in front of a colorful barnyard set.

Chicken Dance celebrates the power of perseverance to overcome insurmountable odds ? and the local bully ? in Marge and Lola's long-shot attempt to win the talent show.

Musical Summary to Read to Students

We will be watching a performance, also known as a musical because it has songs and singing in it, based on the book "Chicken Dance." This musical was recorded on video by ArtsPower National Touring Theatre, a theatre company that creates and tours shows that are usually performed on stages for children around the country. Because ArtsPower cannot travel with their shows because of the pandemic, they created a video of their musical, called Chicken Dance, for us to watch online.

The main characters in the show are Marge and Lola, two friendly chickens who enter the Barnyard Talent Show with the hope of winning the first prize: two tickets to see the famous rooster Elvis Poultry in concert.

There is only one problem: Marge and Lola just cannot figure out what their talent is.

Marge and Lola are not the only ones trying to win the first prize. Mac the Duck, the barnyard bully, is also entered in the talent show. He likes to remind his chicken friends that they have no chance of winning the contest.

Elsie, the barnyard's sweetest cow, decides that she, too, will enter the talent show, even though she is very, very shy and scared to perform in the show.

Chicken Dance has four actors in it and lots of music they sing and dance to. Watch the show carefully to see if you can figure who will win the Barnyard Talent Show!

Common Core Standards Met

Speaking and Listening - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1a-1b; CCSS.ELALITERACY.SL.K.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.6 Language CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1a-1e; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.2a-2d; CCSS.ELALITERACY.L.K.4a-4b; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5a-5d; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.6

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Watch the Show with Discussion Questions

Lesson Plan Objective: To introduce students to ArtsPower's musical, Chicken

Dance.

Educator Instructions: You can read the "Musical Summary for Students" on the

following page to your students and show them the playbill which will introduce them to the cast. If you would like your students to watch the show as one 55-minute video, proceed to "Watch the Full Show! ? Single Video." We recommend the show be watched in parts with discussion questions.

Watch Chicken Dance Part 1 (12:52 minutes)

Discussion Questions

1. Who are the characters you met in Chicken Dance? 2. Where does the show take place? 3. What are the prizes for winning the Barnyard Talent Show? 4. What were the chickens wearing that made them look like chickens? 5. What kind of animal is Mac? 6. How does Mac treat the chickens?

Answer Key

1. Ms. Farmer (the Narrator), Marge (a chicken), Lola (a chicken), and Wilbur (a farmhand).

2. In a barnyard. 3. A blue ribbon and two tickets to the Elvis Poultry concert. 4. Yellow costumes with white sleeves, red collars that represent the chicken's

wattle, and a yellow feathered hat topped with red fabric that represents the chicken's comb. 5. A duck. 6. Poorly. He is a bully and likes to tease the chickens, Marge and Lola.

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Watch Chicken Dance Part 2 (13:08 minutes)

Discussion Questions

1. What kind of animal is Elsie? 2. What kind of animal is Elvis Poultry? 3. Are Marge and Lola good at the talents they try? 4. What talent does Elsie decide to try?

Answer Key

1. A cow. 2. A rooster. 3. No. They are unable to succeed at the talents they attempt. 4. At the end of the second part of the video, Elsie says, "The cow jumped over the

moon. Yeah!" This indicates her intention to choose jumping over the moon as her talent

Watch Chicken Dance Part 3 (10:41 minutes)

Discussion Questions

1. Is everyone excited about the talent show? 2. Who are the other animals that compete in the talent show? 3. Did you enjoy Mac the Duck's performance? If you did, what about it did you

most enjoy? If you did not enjoy the ducks' performance, describe why.

Answer Key

1. All of the animals are excited for the talent show. 2. The animals that compete in the talent show are the chickens, ducks, pigs,

goats, and cow 3. [Student's opinion with reason why.]

Watch Chicken Dance Part 4 (15:36 minutes)

Discussion Questions

1. What did you think about Elsie's talent? Explain why. 2. Were you surprised when the chickens started to sing and dance? If you were,

why? 3. How does Mac the Duck behave when he realizes that he has not won the talent

show? 4. What would you tell Mac the Duck so that he would be kinder to the other

animals?

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Answer Key

1. [Student's opinion with reason why.] 2. [Student's opinion with reason why.] 3. Mac the Duck continues to bully Marge and Lola. When he realizes he has

not won the talent show, he says, "I should be the winner! I should get the first prize! I always win the first prize! Not that cow! Ducks rule! I should be the winner! No fair!" 4. [Student's opinion with reason why.]

Common Core Standards Met

Speaking and Listening - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.1a-1b; CCSS.ELALITERACY.SL.K.2; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.3; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.SL.K.4; CCSS.ELALITERACY.SL.K.6. Language - CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.1a-1e; CCSS.ELALITERACY.L.K.2a-2d; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.4a-4b; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.5a-5d; CCSS.ELA-LITERACY.L.K.6

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