Spring 2024 Book Program – “Bringing Tales to Life” with Peter Pan the Musical
For more than 10 years, HFI has fostered creativity and a love of literacy in Baltimore children. HFI’s “Bringing Tales to Life” program has been offered and executed in thirty schools to date.
This season, HFI partnered with Gardenville Elementary School and Woodlawn Middle School. HFI’s literacy book program links theater with the Maryland State curriculum—and makes literacy and learning fun.
While “STEM” has been endorsed for years by educators—STEAM (with ARTS in the mix) has gotten even higher marks. HFI’s program objective is to tie the content of a show to existing common-core standards for English Language Arts.
For this season’s project, they studied, wrote, illustrated and explored the concept of fairy tales in conjunction with the National Touring Broadway musical Peter Pan.
In the three-part “Bringing Tales to Life” program:
- Students learn the key elements of a fairytale.
- Students use these elements to write & illustrate their own class hardbound fairytale. Students experience the power of live theater when the program concludes with a visit to the Hippodrome Theatre. (In this case, students attended a performance of Peter Pan.)
