| Rhyming makes learning easier for everyone. If you | | | | years ago and my students loved to participate. It |
| want a child to learn something quickly there are two | | | | took a lot of memorizing, out of school rehearsal, and |
| things that will make the process much easier and | | | | after school and during school rehearsal. That is time |
| less painful for everyone involved. One is to put it to | | | | that teachers no longer have to give to programs. |
| music and the other is to make it into a rhyme. | | | | With the No child Left Behind and all the testing |
| Many if not all parents, preschool and kindergarten | | | | required their time is limited. That is why in the last 15 |
| teachers use these methods several times a day to | | | | years I have been putting most of my school |
| get their children to learn. They not only recite | | | | programs/plays to rhyme. |
| nursery rhymes or sing songs, but many put the | | | | When you put the script to rhyme and in stanzas |
| child's phone number and address to music and | | | | then you can get away with a minimal amount of |
| rhyme to help their children learn them. | | | | time for rehearsing. That does not include the music |
| As the children get older teachers use the same | | | | which I ask the music teacher to teach in her regular |
| methods to teach, multiplication facts, states, | | | | music class. |
| counties, states, English rules, punctuation and many | | | | When you put the parts in rhyme then you can hand |
| other subjects. Putting them to music makes it even | | | | out the parts a couple of weeks before the program |
| easier for children to learn. | | | | and the students will have them memorized and |
| I have found when I do school programs that if I will | | | | ready for rehearsal in a week. Most students will |
| write the script in rhyme then the students can learn | | | | have it memorized the first night. This way you do |
| their parts much easier and with less rehearsal. This | | | | not have to go over and over each scene. |
| helps keep rehearsals to a minimal. With all the testing | | | | Thus, with the rhyming I have been able to take a |
| and subjects that teachers are being asked to teach | | | | school program that required many of hours of |
| and do they have little time for the fun things at | | | | practice and be able to produce a quality program in |
| school. | | | | 3-4 hours of rehearsal spread out over a week. |
| I started writing my own elementary school plays 30 | | | | |