Elementary School Programs
Bringing theatre to your Elementary classroom can plant the seeds of learning and adaptability in students. Using kinesthetic, arts-integrated learning techniques, SCT believes that imaginative play is where social-emotional learning begins. Whether it's an improv class that helps students express their creativity, or a world-building Science experience like Ocean Adventures, SCT's Elementary School Programming is here to help your students explore. Read on to learn more about Elementary School curriculum and contact us today to bring SCT to your school.
“I have a couple of students who have behaviors that are difficult to manage, and they don't often have opportunities to feel successful with the typical content of the day. During [our class], they got to really shine. One student in particular really grew in following directions, contributing to the class community, and he felt very rewarded in the positive attention from his peers.” – Elementary School Teacher
“I loved the topics that the visiting teachers used with our class. It was creative and new and engaging. There was a period of time where the flow of the class was not working for my group. However, I gave this feedback to the visiting teacher and the class was adjusted to meet the needs of our students. I appreciated the responsiveness and flexibility.” – Elementary School Teacher
English Language Arts
3rd – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Residency Only
Let’s ignite the power and magic of creativity through the journey of the hero! Students will learn the fundamentals of playwriting; structure, plot, character development, and dialogue through creative exercises that ignite the imagination and explore how these ingredients created everlasting heroes like Harry, Frodo, Luke, Tris, and Katniss. We recommend a residency of 5 sessions for optimal student success.
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Pre-K – 1st Grade | 60 minutes per session | Workshop & Residency
Take your students inside a storybook! Each class, students and our Teaching Artist will read a different book and explore elements of the story through acting, art, and storytelling. Students will discover the narrative process, work together as an ensemble, embody characters using voice, body, and imaginations, use creative problem solving skills, and engage in imaginative play while enjoying the best in children’s literature. With over 180 titles in our library, every class is a new journey into the great beyond!
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Science
Kindergarten – 5th Grade | 60 Minute Session | Workshop Only
In this workshop experience, use a magical magnifying glass to shrink down to the size of an insect and investigate the lives of our tiniest animal friends. Feel the texture of a spider’s web, touch a butterfly’s scaly wings, and learn the waggle-dance that honeybees use to tell each other of delicious local nectar. This imaginative journey engages students’ senses and imaginations in a process of tactile and kinesthetic scientific inquiry guided by expert teaching artists.
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Kindergarten – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
Come with SCT on a journey to the water’s depths. Brush past silky smooth kelp and rough coral as you swim through the Sunlight Zone to encounter the bio-luminescent creatures that populate the world below. Feel the chill, experience the pressure, and befriend an Angler Fish, all while safe in your classroom, strengthening your social-emotional skills with SCT teaching artists!
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Kindergarten – 5th Grade | 60 Minute Session | Workshop Only
It’s another rainy morning in the Pacific Northwest. Wake up, put on your rain boots, and go outdoors with SCT to splash in puddles, make funny faces at your reflection, and ultimately ask the big question: where does this water come from? Evaporate alongside a water molecule, feel the softness of a cloud, and hover under a parachute as you play, learn, and grow with SCT teaching artists in your classroom!
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Math
2nd – 3rd Grade | 60 – 90 Minute Session | Workshop Only
This math-infused Story Drama adventure engages students to learn and apply knowledge of fractions and ratios—in particular, the magic ratio of a circle’s diameter to its circumference—to solve Radius’s dramatic problem: his father has been transformed into a dragon, and, without the correct dose of antidote, will remain one forever. Students will think critically and creatively to determine the correct dose and restore Sir Cumference to his human form. Along the way, students will experimentally calculate the value of pi. We recommend a 90 minute workshop for optimal student success.
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2nd – 3rd Grade | 60 – 90 Minute Session | Workshop Only
This math-infused Story Drama adventure engages students to learn and apply knowledge of basic geometry—categories of shapes, concepts of perimeter and area—to solve a character’s dramatic problem: a group of knights cannot get through a single meeting without argument, and invaders are on the way. Students will think critically and creatively as they step into the roles of these squabbling knights and collaborate to devise a solution. We recommend a 90 minute workshop for optimal student success.
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Social Justice/Social Studies
2nd – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
This workshop series explores A Kid’s Book About Racism written by Jelani Memory, and explains what racism is, how to know it when you see and experience it, and ideas for what you can do about it. We recommend a residency of 5 sessions for optimal students success.
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4th – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
The Dairy of Anne Frank is studied world-wide as it documents the sobering true story of eight people living in hiding in Nazi occupied Holland during World War II, as seen through the eyes of 13-year-old Anne. Her words reach out to us over the generations, inspiring us to never forget, to never give up on the power and goodness of the human spirit, and to always “fill life with living.” This workshop explores these historical events while teaching the importance of empathy, advocacy, and disruption of othering in today’s society. Students should have knowledge of Anne Frank before taking this workshop or residency. We recommend a workshop experience of 3 sessions for optimal student success. Inspired by The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett
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Social Emotional Learning
Pre K – 1st grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop Series
This growth mindset story drama series explores what to do when you have an idea, an opportunity, and a problem using acting, visual art, storytelling, and imaginative play. Students work together as an ensemble and become characters using voice, body, and imagination while engaging their creative problem solving skills. This is a 3 session workshop series.
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Pre K – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
Did you know dance and movement can help students explore how their emotions are shown and felt in their bodies? With the help of their Teaching Artist, students will discover body language, self-awareness, and self-management while listening to different types of music and expanding their movement vocabularies.
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1st – 5th grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
Theatre is a gateway to a stronger community. Turn your classroom into an ensemble through a myriad of theatre-based exercises that actors use to become a collaborative team. Each activity will focus on important 21st Century Skills: critical thinking, social/emotional learning, empathy, creative problem solving, positive communication, collaboration, and imaginative play. We recommend a residency experience of 5 session for optimal student success.
3rd – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop Series
Weave theatre and social emotional learning together to practice Conflict Resolution. Students will develop a scene about a conflict, speak or write monologues about each character’s feelings and interests, and work through resolving the conflict. Students are empowered to identify the problem and their feelings, stay safe and calm, and communicate effectively as they move towards a solution. This is a 3 session workshop series, but can be expanded to a 6+ class residency.
Theatre Arts
1st – 3rd Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
Go on an adventure without leaving your classroom! In this fun, exciting workshop or residency, students build characters and create a detailed, dramatic environment through collaborative, episodic storytelling. Quest themes can be inspired from a unit in your curriculum or based on student interest. Anything goes as long as your imagination is ready!
3rd – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
Collaborate and strengthen skills while focusing on the fundamentals of acting: objective, conflict, and tactic. Each workshop or residency experience will be tailored to the grade and experience level of the class.
3rd – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
Get on your feet! Each week your class learns how performers use their bodies to tell stories through this fun physical education residency. Students develop movement and dance skills to the tunes from popular Broadway shows. Be sure to have a large space, available so students can safely dance.
3rd – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
In this fast-paced, creative environment, students learn the fundamentals of improv beginning with the all-important adage “yes, and…”. From there, they will practice creating stories without scripts or rehearsal using a wide variety of improv techniques, formats, and games.
Sensory Drama
Kindergarten – 5th Grade | Flexible class length based on student dynamic | Residency Only
This residency takes students on a series of imagined field trips to locations students might visit in real life like a museum, zoo, and grocery store. In each place, students explore sight, sound, touch, and smell, and practice some of the social interactions they might have there, with teaching artists stepping in and out of character as fellow actors in the scenes. Teaching artists guide students through the experience of a BIG emotions, like feeling angry, sad, overwhelmed, and joyful to help students practice strategies for emotional self-regulation. The sensory drama option is specifically geared towards classrooms of students with physical and developmental differences.
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Kindergarten – 5th Grade | Flexible class length based on student dynamic | Workshop Only
It’s another rainy morning in the Pacific Northwest. Wake up, put on your rain boots, and go outdoors with SCT to splash in puddles, make funny faces at your reflection, and ultimately ask the big question: where does this water come from? Evaporate alongside a water molecule, feel the softness of a cloud, and hover under a parachute as you play, learn, and grow with SCT teaching artists in your classroom! Sensory Drama Option: Encourage your students of all abilities, particularly those with sensory processing challenges and/or sensory-seeking behaviors, to engage their minds, bodies, and imaginations in a dramatic exploration of the world around them! The sensory drama option is specifically geared towards classrooms of students with physical and developmental differences.
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Kindergarten – 5th Grade | Flexible class length based on student dynamic | Workshop Only
Come with SCT on a multi-sensory journey to the water’s depths. Brush past silky smooth kelp and rough coral as you swim through the Sunlight Zone to encounter the bioluminescent creatures that populate the world below. Feel the chill, experience the pressure, and befriend an Angler Fish, all while safe in your classroom, strengthening your social-emotional skills with SCT teaching artists! Sensory Drama Option: Encourage your students of all abilities, particularly those with sensory processing challenges and/or sensory-seeking behaviors, to engage their minds, bodies, and imaginations in a dramatic exploration of the world around them! The sensory drama option is specifically geared towards classrooms of students with physical and developmental differences.
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Kindergarten – 5th Grade | Flexible class length based on student dynamic | Workshop Only
Use a magical magnifying glass to shrink down to the size of an insect and investigate the lives of our tiniest animal friends. Feel the texture of a spider’s web, touch a butterfly’s scaly wings, and learn the waggle-dance that honeybees use to tell each other of delicious local nectars. This imaginative journey engages students’ senses and imaginations in a process of tactile and kinesthetic scientific inquiry guided by expert teaching artists. Sensory Drama Option: Encourage your students of all abilities, particularly those with sensory processing challenges and/or sensory-seeking behaviors, to engage their minds, bodies, and imaginations in a dramatic exploration of the world around them! The sensory drama option is specifically geared towards classrooms of students with physical and developmental differences.
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Specialty
Kindergarten – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop Series
Our Dramatic Connections Workshop, which is a classroom experience designed to enhance students’ engagement with what they see on stage. The workshop curriculum is developed and presented by our Teaching Artists in the form of a one hour pre or post show workshop (or both!). The workshop can happen in your classroom at your school, or in the building at SCT (available depending on class size) and ideally takes place within a week of your field trip date. The curriculum is designed for Kindergarten through 5th grade students, but can be adapted for each workshop opportunity. The workshop will have students on their feet, stretching their imaginations while deepening their knowledge about the characters, setting, and themes of the mainstage show.
Kindergarten – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop Only
Did you miss the show but read the book? Our past mainstage workshops are available upon request and pair with a classroom study on the book or theme of the show title. Discover SCT’s previous seasons here.
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Kindergarten – 5th Grade | 60 Minutes per Session | Workshop & Residency
Don’t see a topic we offer yet? You can commission new workshops that integrate theatre with a subject or unit of your choice. You’ll be paired with our teaching faculty to co-design a kinesthetic and interdisciplinary learning experience tailored to your curriculum needs.
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