Fifth-grade students at Meadowbrook Elementary School, under the supervision of teachers Emily Caroddo, Denise Henning and Valerie Kasper, worked on their oral presentation skills throughout the school year. Their hard work was evidenced by a culminating project, a series of puppetry skits entitled “Second Step Theater.”
The student-run show incorporated first-grade Second Step skills such as identifying others’ feelings, interrupting politely and impolitely, how to handle wanting something that belongs to someone else, similarities and differences, and dealing with name calling and teasing. These skills became the topics for the skits, which the fifth-graders performed for the first-grade students.
The fifth-graders wrote their own scripts, created storyboards and fashioned puppets with the help of Meadowbrook art teacher Jeanette Ippolito. After performing their skits, they prompted response from their younger peers with questions such as, “What did you learn today?” “What do you think the problem is?” and “How do you stop interrupting?”
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