Innovations Public Charter School first- and second-graders culminated their most recent unit of study on bugs and insects with a musical entitled “Goin’ Buggy.” Students integrated music and drama into their learning, as they took on characters of the insect
Innovations Public Charter School first- and second-graders culminated their most recent unit of study on bugs and insects with a musical entitled “Goin’ Buggy.” Students integrated music and drama into their learning, as they took on characters of the insect population such as fireflies, spiders, butterflies and fuzzy caterpillars. Through musical dramatization, the characters depicting members of the insect population demanded the respect and positive attention bugs have lacked for so long. The audience gained an insects’ perspective on traditional nursery rhymes such as “Little Miss Muffet” and common phrases such as “bug-eyed” and “don’t bug me.” Lana the Ladybug emphatically sang “That’s No Way to Treat a Ladybug,” and insects marched on the White House presenting the Bugs Bill of Rights while singing “The Beetle Hymn of the Republic.” Embedded throughout the presentation were facts about bugs and insects like the caterpillar, which starts out as a “crawler” and ends as “flyer,” and the firefly, which glows because of a chemical reaction.
