Live Theater, Creativity, and what Seabury Kids do on the Bus!

At Seabury, field trips are one of the main ways we are able to teach our students about the world.

Recently, we traveled through the wardrobe door to Narnia, once into Narnia created in our classrooms for a math adventure (see previous posts here and on the Navigators page), and once into the world of Narnia as brought to life at Seattle Children's Theater.

SCT's productions are always fantastic, and The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe was no exception. We talked about how the characters looked or seemed different than they had in our imaginations while we were reading the book, and back at school, completed a Venn diagram on the ways in which the book and the play were the same and different.

We always enjoy having lunch at the Seattle Center after the play. We could not pass up the opportunity to pose with the Space Needle in the background!

My least favorite part of field trips is usually the bus ride. This one, however, WAS an exception. You can tell a Seabury kid, apparently, by what he/she does on the bus!

 This student started writing his review of the play as soon as we started back to school.

One student was creating brain games and surveying everyone: Is it easier to say the location of the word in the box (up, down, left, right) when it is written in the correct location?

 This student was creating secret codes.

This student drew a map of Narnia and labelled all the places she'd seen in the play. This was all BEFORE the Venn diagram comparison of book and play.

It seems that theater truly does inspire creativity, as this article, The Top Ten Reasons Why Theatre is Still Important in the Twenty-First Century, discusses: http://www.tcgcircle.org/2014/06/the-top-ten-reasons-why-theatre-is-still-important-in-the-twenty-first-century/

We are so lucky to be able to do field trips like this one on a monthly basis at Seabury. 

Another great day at the theater (and on the bus!)