Taipei City Renai Elementary School—Creating Puppetry and Entertainment

In the overall story structure of Journey to the West, students are free to choose and redesign the characters, including life, time and space background, personality, advantages and disadvantages... etc.; through imagination and creation, they combine their own old experiences: such as comics, games, Characters from novels and movies, or a sudden inspiration or whim, you can incorporate ideas into your own character design. Through this activity, children can express their creativity, have the courage to try, and show the uniqueness of their roles, thereby understanding the individual differences between themselves and others and gaining their own identity.
In the visual arts course, through clay sculpture, basic sewing, and other three-dimensional modeling techniques, the designed characters are gradually created. In the process of making bag puppets, students can also experience the fun of traditional art and the difficulty of making puppets, and then respect, cherish, get close to, and inherit the spirit of traditional culture!
In the music art course, the Western staff notation that students were familiar with in the past is replaced by the teaching of Chinese notation of gongs and drums, and the rhythm and rhythm of traditional folk music are experienced through the teaching of beat reading and group instrument practice, further cultivating students to learn cooperatively with peers and appreciate Chinese and Western music. Different art forms in culture.
Finally, drama performances are used to integrate music, art, performance, and Chinese. Students can discover that art, life, and subject knowledge complement each other and are mutually reinforcing. Through self-performance, comparison and mutual evaluation, appreciation, and sharing, students can learn more effectively. Take advantage of it! The three aspects of learning in the art field: performance, appreciation, and practice can be fully presented.