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