Learn by acting

Few things are as beautiful in childhood as those wonderful windows that stories, songs, couplets, small plays, and poems open to us.

They are settings that open to joy and imagination, to surprise and childlike gravity.

Through them children dream and sometimes those dreams are illuminated by beauty, but when you have to represent those imaginary characters things get complicated, it is necessary to get to work. How to do it? What pieces do they represent? And the verses? And the songs? And the stories, which ones to tell?

Isabel Holguín de Gómez, the author of this book that is a box of miracles for children, has given us the answer. Over the years she has been writing short didactic works to be performed at school age, which were premiered and implemented during the fruitful years that the author has devoted with devotion and generosity to the students of the different generations of Montessori and Decroly. in the Modern Gym. With this edition he makes all the rest of us participate in that adventure.

These pieces, in their varied ensemble, are as beautiful and entertaining as they are of great pedagogical value. The author's idea – confirmed by a positive experience – is that you can Learn Actuano. That school subjects such as history, geography, religion, music become much better understood when they are represented on stage.

That is why she has written these pieces, with delicate mastery and intelligence, with modesty, kindness and joy. They are the fruit of the expression of the civic and moral values ​​that they have always professed, which they sow like fertile seeds in the child's soul.