Drama in your home school
In high school, I took drama class. We acted out plays in front of audiences, memorized soliloquies and learned lighting techniques. As a home schooled student, your child doesn’t have to miss out on drama class!
Of course, a group of kids can get together, dress up and play act, many times they do that anyway. But stories can also be acted out by using puppets. Children can make their own puppets or you can use bought ones. A great way to check for reading comprehension is to have them act out the last part of the story they read using puppets! It is also a great creative source for them to tell their own made up stories.
Puppets are great manipulatives too. For those kinesthetic learners puppets can help with reading, history and more because they can have movement with puppets!
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There is also the option of finding a Home Schooling Group in your area and running a weekly drama class. This way you can cover a lot of the drama aspects. However, puppets are a great way to introduce children to drama. You can also have your children do short improv exercises using something from the story they are reading. If you only have one child then you can improv with them.
While we’re on the topic of Drama in your home school | The Home Education, For those of us who have a personal experience with home schooling it has proved to be the best choice of education we could have made. The pros far outweigh the cons. In today’s world where personal transportation and the internet are pretty much available to everyone, outside stimulation is readily available.