The Creative Arts Team’s Elementary School Program provides an exciting way to make learning fun and bring important curricular themes and issues alive in the classroom. Actively involving students in fictional dramatic situations, the program is designed to motivate critical thinking, socialization, decision-making, and the development of imagination and literacy skills.

Working alongside CAT’s professionally trained actor/teachers, and their own classroom teacher, students are encouraged to enter imagined worlds in which they can safely explore challenging themes and issues which are relevant to their everyday lives. Special classroom follow-up activities are provided to encourage the development of reading, writing, and discussion skills.

CAT’s newest interactive Elementary Program offers students the necessary tools to help overcome daily pressures and develop coping skills. The program’s content stimulates and improves the students growth on a social and academic level, while providing them with an exciting story line that keeps them involved and engaged throughout the entire residency.

Students in grades 2-5 will develop skills in listening, wondering/questioning, predicting, sequencing, making inferences, summarizing and synthesizing content.  Older elementary school students will be encouraged to understand key concepts and themes in the drama, and apply them to other subject areas; to identify “Point of View” as an element of narration; and to develop their own writing through journaling activities such as character portraits, dramatic retellings, and personal reflections, both in and out of role.